Today, Hellas Verona find themselves in the relegation zone, one point away from safety. They have lost three of their last four, and they need to get positive results against Empoli and Milan as they look to avoid dropping down to the second tier for the first time since 2018/19. However, in 1984/85, they were…

“Halle takes it… Oh, Wetherall’s free! Fantastic header! Bradford City lead Liverpool by one goal to nil! Unbridled joy at Valley Parade!” Those were the words of Martin Tyler, as Bradford City pulled off the great escape in 2000 to stave off relegation from the Premier League.   It was ‘great’ in more ways than…

Despite producing talented players like Just Fontaine and Raymond Kopa, France had reached the 1970s without any major trophies, in stark contrast to other big European nations, like Germany or Italy. To combat this perceived inferiority French football federation president Fernand Sastre started plans to create a bespoke academy in 1976.   Romanian manager Ștefan…

Over the past two decades, Croatia has reached a World Cup Final as well as finished third in another World Cup, but their nation of 4 million has also delivered a variety of footballers who have impressed in European football’s premier club competition. Since 2012, a Croatian player has appeared in every UEFA Champions League…

Today, Italian football is inherently connected to the likes of Juventus, AC Milan or Inter, but one team that could have been alongside is Torino. Nowadays they are firmly in the shadow of their next door neighbors, but after World War Two they fielded a team that won 5 consecutive championships. La Grande Torino, as…

These days, players moving between multiple clubs is as commonplace as sportswashing or bad football takes on Twitter, but in the 1970s, most players came through the youth ranks of a club and either remained for their whole career or moved onto a bigger club and ended their career there. Basically, most of a player’s…

Since the establishment of the Football League in 1888, a total of 24 different teams have won the league title in England ranging from current Championship sides like Preston and Sunderland to League One outfits like Ipswich Town and Sheffield Wednesday. Manchester United have won the most league titles with 20, followed by Liverpool (19),…

On August 21, 2020, Sevilla claimed a record sixth UEFA Europa League title, beating Inter Milan 3-2 in Cologne via a Luuk de Jong brace and an own goal from Romelu Lukaku, with Lukaku and Diego Godín finding the back of the net for Inter. Sevilla would follow that up with another fourth-place finish and…

Since the inauguration of the European Cup in 1955, we have seen 22 different teams win the competition, whilst a total of 42 teams have reached the final. Teams from as far and wide as Greece, Romania and Scotland have made it to the biggest game in club football, but what are some of the…

Constantly fans of the most important secondary thing in the world allude to the atmosphere in stadiums all over England, as well as the culture of cheering, which took some of its first forms on the Island and a prototype of what it should actually look like to support your favorite club. And this is…