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June 2025

A Football Novel that Works
Fiction about sport is notoriously difficult to pull off, but JL Carr's How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup is weird, funny and plausible…
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The Greatest Tactician in History - Part 1
Márton Bukovi was a difficult, brilliant man, the sharpest brain in the most influential footballing culture of all. But he was also somebody of great…
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Shilton and the Mysteries of Posterity
Nobody has won more England caps than Peter Shilton, who may be the greatest goalkeeper in English history. Yet that is not his public image
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Wirtz and the Mega-signings
When he joins Liverpool, Florian Wirtz will become the tenth nine-figure transfer in history, but big money does not necessarily mean big success...
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Teething Troubles
Two days into the Club World Cup, it's time for sweeping judgements. Worthy addition to the calendar or shameful vanity project that will lead to the…
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There'll always be an England
Maybe the Gareth Southgate years were an aberration and there has not been a revolution. Thomas Tuchel's England look a lot like previous incarnations
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Inventing the Pyramids
Last week, the African Champions League was won by Pyramids, an Egyptian club effectively invented out of spite by a former bodyguard of Mohammed Bin…
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The Myth of the Individual
Who created the stereotype of Brazilian football as being all about samba flair and spontaneity and why does it persist to this day?
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Football: what is it?
There are those who insist football is a business, and those claim it's a branch of the entertainment industry. Both are right , but it's a lot more…
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May 2025

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