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When Leicester City completed one of the most unlikely feats in English football history by lifting the Premier League title in 2016, two men…
Spurs fans idolise match-winning mavericks. From Paul Gascogine’s gifted genius to the fleet-footed flamboyance of David Ginola, there have been some truly fantastic footballers…
First at Derby County and then famously at Nottingham Forest, Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, two extraordinary men who would have books written about…
There’s a line in Paula Abdul’s seminal Eighties hit ‘Opposites Attract’ that well describes the magical chemistry that can be created when yin meets…
“Attack wins you games, defence wins you titles.” Those are the words of Sir Alex Ferguson, a man who became the most successful coach…
It’s said that good things come in threes. Whilst that may occasionally be true, in the world of football it is often twos that…
Criticism, injury and relegation – iconic Juventus duo Alessandro Del Piero and David Trezeguet stuck it out together through thick and thin. In the…
“We thought we had the best centre-forward at the time in Les Ferdinand, who got the Player of the Year award the season before.…
Successful football sides are forged on partnerships, the vital cogs that work cohesively together for the greater good of fully functioning machine. It can…
For four decades Roberto Mancini and Gianluca Vialli have been synonymous with one another. Friends, teammates, and a duo that have worked in tantalising…
Liverpool were on the rise under Gerard Houllier as the new millennium arrived, the Frenchman having overseen an overhaul of a team struggling to…
For much of Steven Gerrard’s career at Liverpool he carried the weight of expectation for his childhood club. Fine footballers came and went as…
Football’s finest partnerships are often a recipe of several ingredients. The first, and most crucial, is that the two talents compliment each other’s game…