‘The Sounds of The Crowd’
On 11th February 1963, four scrawny lads from Liverpool known as the Beatles entered Studio 2 at the Abbey Road complex for a 12 hour recording session. The result was their debut album Please Please Me, and led to a revolution in popular music,...
When Porto Ruled The World
When Jose Mourinho was hand picked to replace Octavio Machado I am sure not even the ‘Special One’ thought winning the Champions League was possible. But that’s just what Jose did in 2004 with FC Porto.
The 2002/03 season had already...
Sao Caetano’s Shot At Glory
In recent years English football has seen a new breed of club entering the football pyramid. Teams like AFC Wimbledon and Aldershot Town have risen from the ashes of their former clubs and teams like Fleetwood Town have climbed rapidly up the...
The Fairy Tale
What is the greatest cup run of all time? When asked this question most people in England will come up with a few familiar answers like Wimbledon in 1998 of Chesterfield reaching the semi finals of the FA Cup in 1997. However there is one story...
1985 Verona
To be or not to be that is the question the people of Verona were asking themselves at the beginning of 1985. The city famous for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliette and The Merchant of Venice became famous for football in one of the most surprising...
Les Canaris Flying High
The Loire Valley in France is not the first place you think of when it comes to football. Filled with glorious vin yards and the beautiful Loire river the Loire region of France is as beautiful as anywhere in Europe. In 1996 the regions capital...
Parma Glam
Those of us born in the mid-80’s, and maybe slightly before, are in footballing terms, the Gazzetta Generation. Within this group, for the ones that didn’t have Sky and, in our primary school youth, were still a little bit too young to be...
Defending Milan
With a club career containing 902 professional appearances for AC Milan Paolo Maldini is rightly considered one of the greatest defenders of all time. There are few that can challenge Maldini in terms of not only the length of his career but...
Rivaldo
During the late 90’s and early 00’s there where few players who could match Rivaldo. Rarely has a player been given such a sweet left foot. A master from set-pieces, Rivaldo was a star at club level and for his country Brazil. Rivaldo has...
Zinedine Zidane
In the history of football there have been few players as skillful, as elegant and as exciting as Zinedine Zidane. Zidane will be remembered as one of the greatest players of all time, and for his final act on the field of play.
After playing...
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