From The AS Roma Boardroom To A Rome Jail: The Story of the Man who Helped Birth Roma
Words by Paul Grech No sooner had the deal been announced than a banner appeared outside AS Roma’s head offices. “Hope to never see you...
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Michael Oates
- Oct 5, 2022
- 11 min
CALCIO
In the summer of 1990, I was given a Panini album accompanied by numerous packets of stickers to adorn the pages inside. Looking back, it...
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James Holmes
- Aug 24, 2022
- 3 min
Dark Side of the Moon (Issue 2 article)
In the year 2008, Sheik Mansour became the owner of Manchester City Football Club for the seemingly small amount of £210,000,000. For...
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Luke Connelly
- Aug 18, 2022
- 5 min
Northern Lights: Bodø/Glimt
Like most of the wider European public outside of Scandinavia, I first became aware of Fotballklubben Bodø/Glimt following their exploits...
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Joseph Phelan
- Jul 12, 2022
- 8 min
Children of the Revie-lution (issue 2 article)
Replica kits are as much a part of the modern game as the offside rule and heartless billionaire owners, but without Leeds United, Don...
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Luke Connelly
- Apr 18, 2021
- 1 min
GAVROCHE - Brasserie de Saint-Sylvestre
While I'm reliably assured that French revolutionaries preferred bottles of their local vin rouge, Gavroche makes you want to drink...
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Jack Walsh
- Feb 28, 2021
- 6 min
The Postponed Euros: A Preview.
Euro 2020 is postponed. Imagine saying those words as late as February of 2020. Rage, indignation, disbelief and panic would be the...
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Luke Connelly
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
ISSUE 3: "CALCIO"
Whether you're an aspiring football writer, graphic designer or artist, or all-round creative, we would love to hear your thoughts and...
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Luke Connelly
- Oct 23, 2020
- 2 min
ISSUE 2: "CULTURE"
Whether you're an aspiring football writer, graphic designer or artist, or all-round creative, we would love to hear your thoughts and...
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Luke Connelly
- Sep 11, 2020
- 2 min
CONTRIBUTORS WANTED.
Whether you're an aspiring football writer, graphic designer or artist, or all-round creative, we would love to hear your thoughts and...
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Luke Connelly
- Sep 3, 2020
- 2 min
PEERLESS: PIRLO 2012
Just take a moment to appreciate the performances of one man at Euro 2012. We’re not talking about any member of Spain’s tournament...
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Luke Connelly
- Aug 30, 2020
- 1 min
Lancaster Red
Lancaster is a city of red. It’s the historic county town from which Lancashire bears its name. The red rose county, formerly the duchy...
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Luke Connelly
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
robinson's mojo
“CRIKEY!”, “What is it Austin?”, “I’VE LOST MY MOJO!”, “no you haven’t, it’s right there on the coffee table, now sit down and put your...
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Luke Connelly
- Aug 13, 2020
- 4 min
GELSENKIRCHEN 97.
Eurofighters. Schalke 04's 1996-7 kit in all its glory. Deutschland 96. Welcome to the most exciting time in German football history....
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Luke Connelly
- Jul 26, 2020
- 2 min
colo-colo 1991
In 1991 Colo Colo won the Copa Libertadores. No Chilean team had ever achieved this feat, nor has one since. This victory consolidated a...
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Luke Connelly
- Jun 30, 2020
- 1 min
AS Roma
There is history in this badge and history runs deep in Rome. The city is wrought in it. The focal point of antiquity, the root and...
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Luke Connelly
- Jun 18, 2020
- 1 min
Wunder Lager.
With a label usually worn by a grand national jockey, Wunder Lager makes you want to say “I’ll put a Pound on that one, he’s wearing the...
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Luke Connelly
- Jun 10, 2020
- 4 min
AN ODE TO THE FANS.
Join us as we travel through the concrete jungle that is deep suburbia. We journey through winding cul-de-sacs of back to back dwellings...
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Luke Connelly
- Jun 7, 2020
- 1 min
SHINDIGGER west coast pale ale
This one's a local affair. If you, like many inhabitants of the North West of England, frequent Manchester’s Northern Quarter of a...
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Luke Connelly
- Jun 6, 2020
- 6 min
Making Up The Numbers?
I always find something particularly disconcerting about European clubs entering their B teams into the same professional structure. In...
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