The European football season is long and hard. Away days in December in freezing cold temperatures, Saturday midday kick-offs away at stadiums with notoriously intimidating atmospheres, home derby matches against a well-matched opponent and finally the delight or despair of your side scoring or conceding a last-minute decisive goal. All emotions are experienced and lived…

Zinedine Zidane was one of the greatest players of his generation. Now, he strives to be the greatest tactician of this generation.   Guy Lacombe, Zidane’s mentor and former coach said that, “What Zidane did already have was the sense of the collective. He made other players play well. He used to solve problems on…

When we think of incredible football teams, the mind immediately wanders to the likes of Brazil 1970, West Germany of 1974 or more recently Manchester United’s 1999 Treble winners, Arsenal’s Invincibles or the Spain team of 2008-2012. What about the Wunderteam? It could be argued that the icons of Austrian football tend to get overlooked…

Hummel and Denmark are synonymous with each other. The sportswear brand and national team started off their relationship in 1979 and ran until 2004, before German giants Adidas took over, but 2016, after 12 years away, Hummel made a return, starting a second deal that would run until 2024, exciting fans as their first tenure…

In the season 2012/13, Jupp Heynkes led Bayern Munich to a historical treble, breaking a number of records along the way and becoming the first German side ever to win the treble.   They recorded the highest point tally in the league of 91 points, had the biggest point gap between first and second place…

When Gerónimo Rulli saved a David de Gea penalty in the 2021 Europa League Final shoot-out, he etched perhaps the greatest underdog story in Spanish football history into the record books, putting his side into the pantheon of great European upsets. Villarreal had won a trophy they, quite frankly, had no right to win.  …

In the top ten leagues of European football (ranked by the UEFA Coefficients system), there have been a total of 173 different champions. The most have come from The Netherlands and Germany, with 29 separate clubs lifting each title, while 28 account for France, and 24 from England.   A total of 16 have won…

Brazil has some of the best football players of all time. They are Globally recognized for their national talent and are constantly pulling medals for the teams and individual players.   Today we are going to narrow down these amazing sporting heroes and show you the 10 best Brazilian football players of all time.  …

“Remember the name! Wayne Rooney!” bellowed Clive Tyldesley as a young 16-year-old born and bred scouser scored his first Premier League goal.   How did the teenager in question celebrate such a big moment? By playing football with friends in the street. Of course he did.   That summed up Wayne Rooney as a footballer.…

We’ve all heard about it: a team gets promoted, performs well above expectations in their first season in the Premier League, and it all comes crashing down in the next year – ‘second season syndrome’.   This season, it seems as if Leeds United are the latest team to suffer from it, having finished ninth…