Category: Features

Time For Tiemoue Bakayoko To Prove His Worth To Conte & Chelsea
Chelsea’s 2-1 defeat against Arsenal in yesterday’s Carabao Cup semi-final exposed many of the traits that Antonio Conte is keen to stamp out of his s [...]

Garrincha’s Cup – Zito’s Final: Looking Back At Brazil’s 1962 World Cup Triumph
Chile 1962 does not rank among one of the most glamorous World Cups. Brazil’s second win is squeezed in between their exuberant first triumph in Swede [...]

Schalke Fans Send A Message To Departing Goretzka – Bundesliga Zeitung
Once more this week, the bigger stories and main focuses of the Bundesliga were not about what is happening on the pitch.
It was again the transfe [...]

Liverpool to Sign Colombian Left Back Anderson Arroyo
As revealed exclusively by World Football Index's Colombia correspondent Simon Edwards last week, Liverpool have agreed terms to sign eighteen-year-ol [...]

Club Esportiu Europa – The First Team to Rival Barcelona
One day in the future, when extra terrestrials come to earth having analysed our species with a number of curious questions to ask in relation to how [...]

Can Napoli Hold Off Juve? And Other Serie A Storylines – The Calcio Consultant
Okay, I’m all rested and refreshed. I did rue Serie A taking a break shortly after the new year, and I have to say, last weekend was weird without the [...]

A Tale Of Two Cities: Barcelona’s Desire And Real Madrid’s Complacency
“Numbers don’t lie,” said Real Madrid’s all-time leading top scorer. The best player in the world won almost every major trophy available to him and h [...]

Rückrunde Under Way As Transfer Rumours Go Astray – Bundesliga Zeitung
After a suitably long break, the BuLi’s back in town. I’ll refrain from continuing to adapt Thin Lizzy lyrics, but will unapologetically not refrain f [...]

Real Madrid 2017/18 – A Holistic Tactical Analysis
Thousands of words have been written over the past month regarding the spectacular collapse Real Madrid suffered in the second half of El Clasico, and [...]

Watford Leading The Way As Market For South American Talent Expands
In the early 20th century, European clubs began to take advantage of the footballing revolution in South America.
The continent had started to dev [...]