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An Iberian deadlock in the Russian heartland
Sometimes, things are like re-watching old football matches. You know, how it's gonna end, who walks home with a smile and who cries in the dressing room. Still a tiny little corner of your heart feels that if you longed and willed…
A Red Letter Day: Spoils of a Title Reverie
March 8, 2020 was a big day for the Red Devils as the club did a league double over Manchester City for the first time in a decade since Sir Alex Ferguson retired. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has defeated Pep Guardiola thrice this season in the…
A Moment of Courage at the Rostov Arena
I have never been a fan of Brazilian football, even when their greats played together while I was still a kid. Maybe I did not observe enough or probably did not like aligning with the heavyweights. World Cup 2018 was proving to be far more…
United’s Paradise- A Fanboy’s Memory
It would be easier for me to start this article with a quote, so that I need not say which match I have selected for this ongoing series, “Most memorable football match of my life.” “But mountains are to be climbed, aren’t they?”
As a…
Scramble in Africa: Story of a German Triumph
By merely borrowing the term “The Greatest Game”, I believe I am committing an error of judgement. There aren’t any preconceived parameters to analyse a game, apart from its statistics, but it would only issue a quantitative analysis of the…
Catalan Smile in the Battle of Bernabéu
Well if you ask me to describe the greatest football match I saw live to date, my choice would undoubtedly be the El Clásico of 24th April, 2017 when FC Barcelona visited Santiago Bernabeu to take on their historical rivals Real Madrid CF.…
La Liga: Simeone’s transfer brilliance to give Atletico Madrid edge in title race?
Eden Hazard's dream move to Real Madrid was the biggest talking point of the ongoing transfer saga while football world was captivated by how Cristiano Ronaldo lured the rock solid youngster De Ligt to the mighty Juventus, how good would…
Manchester United: A Fairytale of Yore
Commentator's voice: “Can you believe the genius of this man. He smashed it into the back of the net and it gets even better. It’s Cristiano Ronaldo who makes it two. It’s a shot of superlatives and not many have scored past David James…
Liverpool’s ‘misfit midfielders’ rule the roost
Liverpool have the once in a blue moon opportunity to “conquer the Europe” when they face their domestic rivals Tottenham Hotspur out of London, under the bright lights of Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid tonight.
Jürgen Klopp’s side have…
Ritual of resistance: The Defensive lessons of football
Football brings in a common visual language, breaking the barriers of existing language and its structures. Exemplary movements made by the players around the ball, in the rectangular ground filled with green grass, transforms into this…