Nine nations have reached double figures for goals at this World Cup, and four of the five most prolific attacks in the whole tournament have made it through to the last four. Only Belgium and […]
All good things must come to an end, and in football, quite a lot of badly run football clubs come to an end too. Believe it or not, there are more than 40,000 association clubs […]
Nowadays, mention the name ‘Ronaldo’ and most people will assume that you’re speaking about Cristiano Ronaldo, the former Manchester United and Real Madrid forward who was accused of rape, won five Ballon d’Ors and then […]
When it comes to football, there aren’t many things that can get people’s blood pressure to spike quite like refereeing decisions. Whether it be the awarding of a free-kick that you think should have gone […]
There is often the temptation when watching a football match to call one of the players on the pitch a ‘dummy’, such is the extent to which they have made a stupid decision or done […]
There are some football phrases that are so ubiquitous that you’d absolutely be well within your rights to just assume that you know what they mean, such is the extent to which you will have […]
It is probably fair to say that the vast majority of football phrases are ones that are easy enough to work out, even if you’ve never heard them before. In the case of ‘a pass […]
Elsewhere on the site, you can read more about ‘El Clásico’ and what it means. One of the things that football loves to do more than most sports is find a pun on something, if […]
For most of football’s history, understanding a match meant watching it unfold and forming impressions in real time. A team looked sharper, a midfielder seemed tired, a defense appeared unsettled. These observations were instinctive, shaped […]
Working as a commentator or a pundit on a football game isn’t an easy job, regularly having to speak about the same kind of thing that you’ve seen play out countless times before. As a […]
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