Tonight sees the opening game of the new Premier League season, with Liverpool playing Norwich City at Anfield. The hosts are, of course, the current ...
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Last Friday the hosts for the 2022 World Cup, Qatar, won the Asian Cup. In the final against Japan, who had previously won the competition four times,...
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The term ‘derby’, of course, has its origins in horse racing. The first Derby was run at Epsom Downs, as the race still is today, in 1780...
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France beat Croatia 4-2 in this year’s World Cup Final in Moscow, the second time they had won football’s grandest prize in the past 20 ye...
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England got their Russian World Cup campaign underway with victory against Tunisia in the Volgograd Arena yesterday. Just like old times. A couple of...
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This coming Sunday will see the staging of the League Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. These days it’s called the Carabao Cup, its immediate previ...
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Joachim Low is the manager of the current world football champions, Germany. Either under that name or West Germany, they have won the World Cup four ...
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After two decades of enjoying the lavish banquets of Champions League football, Arsenal supporters this season are having to make do with supping grue...
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