Category: Featured
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FM Challenges – (3) Back in the Big Time: Making an Impression, Top Flight Debutants & Underdogs
Thankfully 2020 is drawing to a close, years go by, yet from a football point of view, certain things never change. At this point we normally begin to see the runners & riders in a title race emerge in Europe and the champions begin to be crowned in leagues in both North & South America.…
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FM21 Challenges – (2) Return to European Glory or First Domestic Title
Christmas has gone, years go by, yet from a football point of view, certain things never change. At this point we normally begin to see the runners & riders in title races around Europe emerge as the champions begin to be crowned in leagues in both North & South America. It is also the time…
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FM21 Challenges: (1) Restore Fallen Domestic Giants
Christmas has gone, years go by, yet from a football point of view, certain things never change. At this point we normally begin to see the runners & riders in title races around Europe emerge as the champions begin to be crowned in leagues in both North & South America. It is also the time…
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Seán Dillon exclusive: “Craig Levein’s the best manager I’ve worked under.”
When tackling any interview, you always worry about whether your guest will be friendly and open or if it will be like drawing blood from stone. Ten minutes in and we had done nothing more than ask about how we were both coping during the global pandemic, checking in on each other’s families and general…
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Four Minutes in May: Remembering Schalke 04’s Champion of Hearts 20 years on
Football stadiums are many a person’s place to be on a weekend. Since March 2020 onwards with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, however, venues across nearly all of Europe’s leagues have fallen silent with games being played behind closed doors. Whilst games have continued in this eerie fashion, many have stated that the ‘new normal’ of…
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The Demise of York City
Featured image courtesy of York Press What ever happened to York City? From an appearance in the old second division in the mid 1970s for a period of about 20 years, York yo-yoed between the third and fourth tiers of English football. When they were relegated in the 1998/99 season down to what is now…
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Canadian Premier League profiles: Cavalry FC
When I think of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, I traditionally think of three things – ice hockey, rodeo & professional wrestling. But now a new aspect has entered the public consciousness and perhaps it has overtaken the likes of the Calgary Flames, the Stampede and the Hart Foundation: Football. In 2019, the Canadian Premier League launched…
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Au Revoir Coupe de la Ligue
French football’s main domestic cup competition is the Coupe de France, a competition famous for its upsets and extraordinary tales. There is a second cup competition in France, the Coupe de la Ligue, but not for much longer. On 31 July 2020, the 2019/20 edition will conclude with its final between Olympique Lyonnais and Paris…
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Trek to Tannadice
Football is nothing without fans. This is one of the most tiresome phrases that we have heard since lockdown hit the UK in March. It is up there with “the new normal” and “these are unprecedented times”, as a truly used-to-death phrase. It is tiresome because it feels like everyone, absolutely everyone, has uttered this…
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Canadian Premier League profiles: Atlético Ottawa
Ottawa – the federal capital and political hub of Canada. Sure, other parts of the country get more attention and for their own good reasons. The breathtaking scenery in the west with the Rocky Mountains; the impressive falls of Lake Niagara; the cultural epicentre that is Toronto and others besides. However, if you want quintessential…
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