Category: Features
Chess, Rugby and Football’s Other Outside Influences
Comparing football to chess feels like it lands somewhere between pretentious and tacky.
It definitely requires the use of a drop cap at the start [...]
Ramos & Pique: The Best of Friends – The Worst of Enemies
Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique: Never before have a pair of players got on and played so well together at international level, yet treated one another [...]
First Monchi, Now Sampaoli: Are Sevilla in Danger of a Slump?
The scene is the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, the day Sunday the 15th of January 2017 and the game is one that looks to be the dawn of a new age that many i [...]
Thomas Lemar – Monaco’s Support Act Shoots to Stardom
Lisa Fischer is the best singer you've never heard of.
In thirty dazzling years, the Brooklyn native has won two Grammys, sang duets with Mick Jagg [...]
Weekend Worldwide Five: Calavera no Chilla, Derbi Barceloní, OFC Champions League, Moscow Derby, The Snails Race
Friday’s Worldwide Five: A Champions League Final, Argentine big boys, European derbies and a different 24 hours.
By Chris Williams
Worldwide fi [...]
Ryan Babel: Back on Track on the Banks of the Bosphorus
A week ago Ajax put one foot in the Europa League semi-finals, two goals from Davy Klaassen securing a comfortable first-leg victory over Schalke 04.
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The Brothers Alcântara: On the Path to Greatness
With extensive trophy hauls that even some of the most seasoned veterans are unable to boast of, the brothers Alcântara -- both the fruits of Barcelon [...]
Video Technology in Football: Once a Suggestion, now Desperately Needed
It takes something truly special to steal the limelight and attention away from Cristiano Ronaldo, especially on the night he scores a hat-trick and i [...]
Zdenek Zeman: The Man, The Myth, The Chain-Smoking Legend
In Italy they call him Il Boemo -- the Bohemian. Others just call him a maverick. What no one will call the chain-smoking Czech, Zdenek Zeman, or his [...]
Ryan Sessegnon – Destined to be the ‘Best Left Back in the World’
"I have to put this kid in the team."
It took just a few minutes for Slaviša Jokanović to understand what he was seeing.
The Fulham boss had bee [...]