Japan to Germany is a step up made glamourous in the last year by Shinji Kagawa, whose impact for Bundesliga winners Borussia Dortmund was enormous despite his absence in the second half of the season. The Cerezo Osaka playmaker…Read More
Last week, Gary Neville called time on his almost 20 year career with Manchester United and England, writes Ryan Keaney. With 602 career appearances for Manchester United and 85 caps for England, he retires from football as one of…Read More
My early childhood was more punctuated frequently than dominated by trips to Villa Park. Instead it was AFC Bournemouth that provided my up-close-and-personal formative experiences of live football, and I was a regular at Dean Court from the early…Read More
At the age of 21, Valentin Stocker is a name unknown to most people outside of Switzerland. The Swiss Super League is not one of the more glamorous divisions so it is no surprise that the waves Valentin is…Read More
When I wrote before the 2010 Major League Soccer season that Sébastien Le Toux would be a shrewd selection by Philadelphia Union in the 2009 Expansion Draft, I did so on the basis that he would get more playing…Read More
When a recently transferred footballer addresses the reasons behind his choice of club it is almost inevitably little more than a barrage of platitudes and pleasantries. The fans are great here, some say. I supported this club as a…Read More