Apalak

Four months before he led Boca Juniors to the club's latest Copa Libertadores crown, Angel Miguel Russo was seated alone at a bar in Buenos Aires. Jonathan Wilson, one of the most accomplished football writers of our time, had incidentally…

When Chelsea met Leeds United in the final of the FA Cup in 1970, it produced one of the most exhilarating contests for what was then the most prestigious prize in English football. It was, in many ways, a clash of styles, the flashy and…

‘Tradition’ is a notoriously pervasive, and hence often quite empty, label in the world of football. The term gets relentlessly brandished in the discourse surrounding the game in order to justify, condone and condemn any and all things as…