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Celtic Winger Jota Pays Homage to Portugal Legend Fernando Chalana
Jota’s lovely chip against Rangers in the first Old Firm game of the season that the Parkhead side won 4-0 was voted as the Scottish Premiership’s goal of the season. The former Benfica man has become an icon amongst the Celtic faithful after signing for the Hoops in 2022 for a fee of £6.4 million. …
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Rangers’ Disappointing Treatment Of Former Club Captain Lee Wallace
Former Hearts, Rangers, Queens Park Rangers, and Scotland defender Lee Wallace has decided to retire from football at the age of 35 years old. Wallace has been without a club since being released from Queens Park Rangers at the end of last season. His wife announced the news of his retirement from her Twitter…
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Dele Alli’s Brief and Futile Everton Spell
Dele Alli, once dubbed ‘the next Ronaldinho’, spent the last two years at Tottenham Hotspur under three separate managers, failing to impress none of the trio. Alli shone under Argentine manager Mauricio Pochettino, most notably scoring on 22 occasions over 50 games during the 2016/17 campaign. Alli contributed 30 goals thereafter until the decision…
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Jill Scott, Thank You
Every so often a player retires from football, and it hits you just how much they have impacted your love and enjoyment of the game. This happened to me very recently… As the final whistle went at Wembley Stadium, the crowd erupted in sheer relief, it was over. England were European Champions! There is…
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Zidane Iqbal: A Young Pioneer for South Asian Footballers
Whatever Zidane Iqbal does for the rest of his professional career, he will forever be cemented as a legend within the South Asian community. By being the first player of South Asian descent to sign and play for Manchester United, arguably England’s biggest club, he has shown the abundance of footballing talent within this community.…
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Watch Out Europe, Ada Hegerberg Is Back
Football is weirdly intertwined with sound. Not readily at the fore of a fan’s mind are the various sounds without which the game would be completely different. The ‘clang’ of the ball hitting the post, the ‘buff’ of the boot hitting the ball, the ‘pop’ of a star player’s cruciate ligament being ruptured. At…
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Romelu Lukaku’s Chance for Redemption at Inter Milan
After taking charge of Chelsea on an 18-month contract on January 26, 2021, Thomas Tuchel led the Blues to their first Champions League title in nine years after eliminating Atlético Madrid, Porto and Real Madrid before beating Manchester City 1-0 in the Final in Porto, as a first-half goal from Kai Havertz saw Chelsea come…
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Where Did It All Go Wrong for Romelu Lukaku at Chelsea?
At the time of his second signing, Romelu Lukaku had scored 113 Premier League goals and recorded 35 assists, but none of those numbers had come in a Chelsea shirt. His last known memory in the colors of Chelsea blue was a missed penalty in the 2013 UEFA Super Cup against Bayern Munich. But he…
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Mohamed Salah’s Best Moments Wearing the Liverpool Jersey
Since Jurgen Klopp joined in 2015, the rise of Liverpool has been phenomenal. The addition of Mohamed Salah in 2017 to the Liverpool team has cemented the Klopp era into the history books. Salah has been in electric form for his club ever since joining. Here are his best moments with them. Winning the…
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Mario Götze’s Spell at PSV Eindhoven
It’s the transfer deadline day in the summer of 2020. Whilst everyone was counting down the last few hours of the 31st of August, something popped up on Twitter. A picture, of a person in a big, black car. A local person in Eindhoven quickly took a picture because he was wondering if it could…
