Category: Interviews
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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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An Introduction to UK Academy Football
Youth academies. Anyone who’s played Football Manager will know how important they are in guiding your wonderkids towards a first team place. Improving the facilities, bringing in the greatest minds in terms of coaching and analysis, all of it has an influence when attempting to reduce the impact of the transition from youth football to…
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Interview: Momo Yansane – the world’s new favourite centre forward
Humans have an innate ability to find an interest in things to keep themselves occupied, and to some extent, happy even during the direst of circumstances. Different people find different ways to keep their hopes alive and keep themselves engaged during times of duress. Football fans are no exception, and during this period where the…
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Interview: Istiklol’s Timur Dzhuraev
Most football fans (and people) don’t know much about the Central Asian country of Tajikistan. Or at least, they didn’t until the coronavirus pandemic resulted in the Tajik football league being one of the only active football competitions in the world. Now, the country’s football is free to watch online, and the national association has…
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Interview: John Ludden, author of Matt & Jimmy
In 1958, Manchester United could almost touch the top of the world. The culmination of over a decade of cultivating the most authentic, hungry and talented footballers was spine-tingling; before setting off to Belgrade to take on Red Star in the European Cup quarter final they had mesmerised Highbury with a swashbuckling 5-4 thriller. A…
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Interview: FK Vojvodina Academy Director Duško Grujić
The third and final interview of our series around Serbia’s prestigious FK Vojvodina involves the club’s Academy Director, Duško Grujić. Born near Novi Sad back in the 1970s, and a centre-back in his playing days, Grujić is currently the man responsible for bringing the next generation of talents at Vojvodina to the mainstream. Starting off…
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Interview: Napredak Kruševac’s Aleksandar Mesarović
Note for the reader: this interview was originally conducted in October 2018, when the player was at FK Vojvodina, however most of the information stays relevant to the current day. Though Serbia is outside the spectrum of most football fans when it comes to watching the sport, the fact that the Balkan nation has produced…
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Interview: FK Vojvodina’s Miloš Subotin
The job of the PR manager of any football club is often underappreciated. Not only are they tasked with preserving and improving the identity of a sporting organisation, their duties and decisions often impact entire communities, cities, and even nations. Some PR managers spend more time than the players, coaches and directors at the club…
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Interview – Tuesday Night Football Eastbourne
When all’s said and done, football is just a game. Two teams kicking a ball about is as rudimentary a past-time as it gets, however loudly the Champions League anthem may blare out. However much one tries to distill it to its simplest form though, there are powerful effects of playing the game that stretch…
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Interview – Steven Scragg, author of Frozen in Time: The Wonderful Randomness of the Cup Winners’ Cup
There was a time when Aberdeen could stand toe to toe with Real Madrid and come out on top, when Dinamo Tblisi held a famous reputation, and when Magdeburg beat AC Milan in a final. Now it sounds fanciful at best, but the Cup Winners’ Cup was a magical, mystical world that threw up some…
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