TOTTI: ITALY’S LAST GREAT FANTASISTA

BARNEY STEPHENSON looks at the career of a Roma and Italy icon FRANCESCO Totti is 40 this year. He has just made...

IT’S NOT LIKE THE OLD DAYS…

Self-confessed ‘Grumpy Old Fan’ ROB BRADLEY says football just isn’t what it used to be A PART from the obvious impact...

YOU NEED SUPPORT TO MAKE IT!

TOM HESLOP talks to ex-Cambridge United striker Robbie Simpson and Fulham forward Matt Smith about the people who helped them carve...

QUOTES OF THE YEAR

BEING a football manager is a tough job and the life expectancy is getting shorter and shorter. So it’s no wonder...

THE SUM OF THE PARTS DO ADD UP!

THE SUM OF THE PARTS, BY JON KEEN, PUBLISHED BY MICKLE PRESS, £17.99,RATING OUT OF 10: 8  STALWART Reading fan Jon...

FALLING FOR FOOTBALL SHIRTS

NEAL HEARD explains why he needed to write a book about his favourite football jerseys – and why Newport County’s 1979-82...

THE MIGHTY MAGYARS

KEVIN HALLS recalls how Hungary’s finest came to England and changed football forever… ENGLAND head off to the European Championship in...

WAG CORNER

E cstatic: Fabio Borini celebrates against Chelsea and, inset, kisses his wife after ensuring Sunderland’s Premier League Survival IT WASN’T a...

THE DEMAND FOR INSTANT SUCCESS IS RUINING GAME

SAM MEADE explains why football should take a longer-term view PATIENCE remains a virtue. Unfortunately, football remains so immensely out of...

FOOTBALL’S ROOM 101

KEVIN HALLS comes clean on his football frustrations… IENJOY watching Room 101 on television. The programme, hosted by comic and wellknown West...

SUPPORTING THE SUPPORTERS

With an increasing trend for foreign ownership, ROSS KEEN asks whether the Fit and Proper regulation is in fact Fit and...

FIGHTING FOR FAIR PRICES

JONATHAN COWLEY says Liverpool supporters may have won a battle, but fans in general are still miles away from winning the...

WHAT FANS DEMAND…

STEVE CUMBER says that football supporters take a different attitude at the match than they do anywhere else… For many years...

CELEBRITY FANS

KEVIN HALLS takes a look at the increasing number of musicians, actors and comedians getting behind teams… WHEN I was a...

CHAMPIONSHIP CLASS

TOM HESLOP talks to former Scotland striker Chris Iwelumo about football in England’s second level The Championship has a reputation for...

WAG CORNER

Arturo Vidal LIFE’S pretty good for Bayern Munich’s Arturo Vidal on the pitch right now – and it’s not too bad...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A PHYSIO

JOHN LYONS talks to veteran physiotherapist Ian Liversedge about his incredible career… NOT many people can say they’ve worked with the...

VILLA’S GREAT SEASON – FOR A BLUENOSE!

Birmingham City fan KEITH DIXON admits Aston Villa’s desperate season has provided bundles of laughs… IN BIRMINGHAM at the moment there...

HILL-CLIMBER!

JOE NELSON & DANIEL VENN chat to Queen Park Rangers’ veteran defender Clint Hill about the highs and lows of his career…...

AND WE STILL ‘LOVE IT’!

JONNY BRICK looks back at the incredible career of Kevin Keegan – and one moment in particular that will never be...

HIGHLY PROMES-ING!

DANIEL ARMSTRONG explains why Spartak Moscow’s No.10 Quincy An Promes could return the glory days to The People’s Club – if...

THE DEMISE OF THE AIR HEADER

THOMAS SARGENT says a crucial part of the pre-game warm-up is in danger of extinction… MODERN football has seen us lose...

MADCAP LEAGUE FOOTBALL

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THE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

ALLY McKENZIE explains how football takes over your life, giving you great highs and painful lows… IT HAS recently struck me...

Janko Unchained: Can the goal-happy frontman secure a big money move this summer?

By Craig Simpkin In the ‘good old days’, strikers were judged solely on their proclivity for putting the ball in the...

Academy Blues

By Jacob Graham Football fans often moan nowadays that they don’t see many home-grown players in their team. There are certainly...

A Look at the More Interesting Post-Retirement Career Choices

By Alexander Lynn Football is a game of two halves – career and retirement. For every Gary Lineker given a lucrative...

Pochettino: English Football’s Saviour?

 By Matt Joy Following Southampton’s decision to dismiss the man with the whitest teeth in football, Nigel Adkins, in January 2013,...

It’s Still Our Game

By Alex Leonard Two years after England won the World Cup, sports journalist Arthur Hopcraft published a book entitled The Football...

Alex Manners – My Quest to do the 92

By Alex Manners So far my quest to visit all 92 league grounds for a match currently stands at 62. It’s...