Donald Trump’s four-year administration as the President of the United States ended in infamy, with Trump refusing to concede defeat after losing to Joe Biden, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud, trying to overturn the results by pressuring government officials, obstructing the democratic transition and mounting various unfruitful lawsuits. This reached a boiling point on January…

After their founding in 1974 following a merger between Racing Club de Calais and Union Sportive, Calais Racing Union FC would spend a quarter of a decade bouncing around the amateur leagues, and they found themselves in the fourth tier of French football when the 1999/00 season rolled around, having posted losses of £200,000 the…

The name Rasmus Højlund has understandably been on the lips of numerous Manchester United fans. A striker heavily linked to the Premier League giants who are in dire need of a striker. With both sides agreeing a fee, many journalists alongside United fans, have looked at his performance during his single season at Atalanta –…

When Rinus Michels left Ajax for Barcelona in 1971 after a six-year spell that would see him win four league titles and three Dutch Cups, he was tasked with finding his own replacement. Together with the club, he drew up a list of 15 potential managers for Ajax, where had previously spent six years at…

When thinking about Tyrol, most people picture pristine ski slopes with chic après ski facilities where millionaires can take selfies after shredding some powder and ignoring the calls of their business partners who are looking to expand their hedge funds just for the day, because they are on vacation. Of course, this exaggeration is not…

Imagine Real Madrid coming to the aid of Barcelona during their most recent financial issues. It seems out of the realm of possibility, but something similar happened in Germany, giving birth to a myth that Bayern saved Dortmund from bankruptcy. But how real is this heart-warming tale of footballing brotherhood?   Borussia Dortmund were coming…

Today, Luton Town are playing Premier League football for the first time ever, but it wasn’t long ago that The Hatters found themselves in a seemingly never-ending crisis. Under the leadership of John Gurney the club went into a 55-day meltdown. Gurney, who was charged with importing cocaine in February of 1999 had a long…

Everyone knows the infamous Calciopoli scandal that would see Juventus stripped of the 2004/05 Serie A title and relegation to the second tier, but match-fixing has existed almost since football was invented and there are plenty of other scandals that have had monumental implications. Today, we’re going to be taking a look at three lesser-known…

The 2020 Champions League Final was one of the most unusual of all time, in terms of what happened off the pitch and around the sport as a whole. On the pitch, Bayern defeated Paris Saint-Germain with a former PSG academy player Kingsley Coman scoring the only goal of the game. History usually doesn’t remember…

Teams outside the top flight usually get so little attention that many of their stories go unnoticed and uncelebrated. Many of these stories involve unlikely European adventures, the most well-known amongst them being Wigan’s 2013-14 Europa League campaign. After defeating Manchester City in the final of the 2013 FA Cup, Wigan were relegated three days…