Nick Hornby once wrote that it is not us who chose a football team to follow but that the team choses you. Jonathan Wilson shared his very own take on this view. … Like father, like son: Thoughts on being a fan Last year, after my dad had died, I stayed holding his hand for…
Yesterday the well known and esteemed guardian writer and editor of the blizzard Jonathan Wilson had to admit in a piece for the guardian’s sports blog that not Arsenal under Herbert Chapman were the first team to play in a W-M formation in the 1920s but that this was already in use in Southampton already…
The Club formerly known as SV Austria Salzburg was the first to be renamed after Red Bull bought the club in 2005. More franchises soon followed: 2006 New York (since 2010 with a certain Thierry Henry), 2009 there was RB Leipzig. Recent additions were RB Brazil located in
The editorial in the German football magazine Fu
On Monday Ghana played Brazil in a friendly game at Craven Cottage, the home ground of Fulham, in London. Accounts of those present reports that the game could have ended in a catastrophe. Chaotic ticket allocation and the rumors that tickets were still available on the door, led to a dangerous crush at the gates.…
This is what Karl-Heinz Rummenigge did in response to FIFA’s apparent corruption. As the chairman of the European Club Association (ECA), which represents the football clubs of Europe and their interests in any dispute with UEFA or FIFA, Rummenigge demanded that FIFA clean up their acts and restore honesty. In his function he stated that…
Uruguay have won the Copa America 2011 and are the force of South American football to be reckoned with for the next years. OK, Brazil will be in better shape come the Confed Cup 2013 and the World Cup the year after. For now however, it is Uruguay who seem to be the best team…
What happens once football players decide it’s time to call it a day? There seem to be a number of options they can choose from. George Best opened a boutique while German World Cup winner of 1954 Horst Eckel returned to his trained job as a teacher and even as a pensioner is working with…
That is the ultimate conclusion the observer of this weekend’s football that saw Argentina and Brazil crash out at the quarterfinal stage of the 2011 Copa America in held in Argentina. The two continental super powers were joined by Columbia and Chile, making the semi-finals a very strong occasion for Uruguay and Paraguay to reach…
This is the best way to describe Japan’s historic success at the Women’s Football World Cup last night in Frankfurt, Germany. In a game that saw them often outplayed by the United States’ Women’s Soccer Team, Japan never gave up and with some astute resilience they fought their way back into the game and to…