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…

We begin with the final of the second-ever season of the European Cup held in 1957. The venue for the final was selected in honour of the previous year’s winners, Real Madrid. The defending champions would face Fiorentina, the first Italian team to make a continental final, in their home ground. Real’s first goal was…

The 2012-13 Premier League season was marked by one major shift in the fortunes of the league and its more successful team. Sir Alex Ferguson decided to stick around for one more season to prove that he can overcome anything football throws at him before walking off into the sunset, or the pouring rain at…

Today, we are taking a trip to the banks of the River Colne and examining a 142-year-old club in Hertfordshire, a team that is nicknamed the Hornets despite having a male deer in its logo. I am talking about, of course, Watford Football Club.   Watford were languishing in the fourth tier when lifelong fan and…

The 68th season of Europe’s premier club competition will come to an end on June 10, as Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City face off against Simone Inzaghi’s Inter in Istanbul. Today, we’re going to take a look back at the early years of the Champions League — back when it was still known as the European…

With a name like Pompey, you’d expect Portsmouth FC to have a dramatic rise followed by a swift downfall, akin to their triumvir namesake. However, the fortunes of the coastal club are much closer to the ebbing and flowing of the tide. With not one but two tired attempts at picturesque introductions, let’s take a…

Napoli have claimed their third Scudetto and first in 33 years, and they’ve done so in stellar fashion with 26 wins, 5 draws, 4 losses, 70 goals scored and 25 conceded. They have obliterated the competition and claimed their place atop Italian football’s totem pole, with the likes of Victor Osimhen and Stanislav Lobotka playing…