The Premier League might get on your nerves and agents might make you scream, but it has nothing on the ten most bent leagues in the world and the hookers, murderers and extortionists who populate them...
While never the most technically gifted of players, Ray Parlour is fondly remembered by most Arsenal fans. He might look like Charlie Dimmock, but credit to him for wising up and becoming the joker of Arsene Wenger's multi-national squad...
Thirty two years before Guus Hiddink’s Australian team reached the 2006 World Cup Finals in Germany, a rather more rag tag and earthy brand of Socceroos achieved precisely the same feat.
Ten days after his own goal had eliminated his team from the 1994 World Cup, Andres Escobar was gunned down by gang members outside a nightclub. The real tragedy though, is how little it surprised followers of Colombian football.
Of all the World Cup underdog stories, the Haitian side of 1974 goes criminally unreported. Somewhere between government corruption and sinister black magic, there was born a team who fought for everything and even gave the Italians a bloody nose.
Of all the World Cup underdog stories, the Haitian side of 1974 goes criminally unreported. Somewhere between government corruption and sinister black magic, there was born a team who fought for everything and even gave the Italians a bloody nose.
The football is beautiful and Nasri is playing like a dream, but Wenger's myopic stance on a decent goalkeeper and commanding centre-half are holding the club back.
Passion, desire and abusing Teddy Sheringham. In the build up to yet another United/Arsenal six-pointer, one Gunner remembers the classic clash of 1997 that saw the momentum for the title swing towards North London.
Nobbled refs, amphetamine-fuelled players, tortured fans. Jon Spurling reveals the ugly truth about the 1978 World Cup in this extract from his brilliant new book 'Death or Glory, The Dark History of the World Cup'.