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It was always on the cards. The notorious Forest owner had never seemed quite patient, and the winless run that the newly appointed Ange Postecoglou was overseeing had finally plunged the club into the relegation places. Minutes after the…

Erling Haaland seemed disappointed even after scoring a brace with his 23rd goals of the season for club and country. Is he on the run for the Ballon d’Or? Seems like it. Pep Guardiola’s team climbed the Everton hill with the help of the…

Manchester City and Everton are set to return to Premier League action after the two-week international break. Both teams will restart their journey at the Etihad Stadium tomorrow. Manchester City come into the game after successive…

Ernst Kuzorra had been associated with Schalke 04 since his boyhood. In the years before the formalisation of players’ wages and transfer fees, most German footballers were essentially one-club men. Kuzorra also spent his whole playing…

Qatar and Saudi Arabia have officially qualified for the 2026 fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FIFA World Cup, securing top spots in their respective groups in the fourth round of Asian…

England became the first European nation to qualify for the 2026 fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FIFA World Cup after a dominant 5-0 victory over Latvia in Riga on Tuesday night. The win…

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…

Cabo Verde has just qualified for the fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FIFA World Cup 2026, becoming the second least populous country to do so since Iceland in 2018. A country with a…

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…