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Why Spanish Football Ignores All the Rules
So we’ve seen the melt down coming for some time. A small number of Spanish super clubs have ruled the European competitions breeding a sense of invincibility, entitlement. So many clubs begin with Real, claiming a magnificent aristocratic heritage. Barcelona have defied the obligations of the balance sheet. Popular sentiment and the voluble Spanish football media dictate policy. But for the fans la juma inflames matchdays. The Real Madrid manager’s […] Read More
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Recollections of Former Managers
Managing a junior football team is an all too familiar story. Training midweek nights in the middle of Winter, being locked out, washing kits, retrieving kit from disillusioned parents, nets and corner flags in car boot all week, running line (because no one else could be arsed), collecting last month’s subs that were, of course, claimed to have been paid, transporting fourteen boys in two cars, taking two boys home […] Read More
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The Tragic Demise of Andres Escobar
The Tragic Demise of Andres Escobar Born 13 March 1967, Andres Escobar was only 27 when he was shot to death outside a nightclub in Medellin, Columbia by three assassins. Escobar played for Columbia’s Atletico Nacional for his entire career. Nicknamed ‘The Gentleman’ Escobar was recognized for his clean play in a sometimes cynical league. The Colombian national team was resurgent in the early 1990s. They were reaching toward the […] Read More
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Bury FC – the Wrexham of the Irwell Valley?
Between the ages of 6 and 16 I was a Bury FC fan. At first my dad took me. We passed the gas holder at the Irwell Bridge where they still made gas from coal. It smelled bad! We cruised up and down the rows of terraced houses beside the Gigg Lane ground in our Austin A40 to find the closest spot to ground. By the time I was 10 […] Read More
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