The food sold in the ground. Everyone expects changes when new owners take over at a football club. Most of the time this means replacing the manager, bringing in some new people and perhaps looking ...

I n an era of defined positions and rigid tactics, a lanky winger glad in Liverpool red broke the mould. Steve McManaman had all the qualities of a true winger. As a footballer, his talent was never a ...

A celebration of These Football Times’ writers’ favourite stars of the 2000s, from Xabi Alonso and Kaka to Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry ...

T he 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea was a tournament of shocks and surprises, with a touch of genuine quirkiness thrown in for good measure. Never before had European audiences been treated ...

Behind The Badge is a series by COPA90 exploring football’s unique crests. These Football Times teamed up with their COPA Collective partners to tell the story behind each one. As a badge commonly ...

W ith the exception of Prato, whose digits have been greatly inflated by Far East Asian immigration in recent decades, there’s just one name amongst the 23 most populous cities in Italy never to have ...

T he history of football is often told as one of the great sides emerging before slipping away and passing that mantle to others. Despite that, there had been something crushingly perfect about ...

F rom the relentless Grand Slam dominance of the Williams sisters to the squabbling rock ‘n’ roll petulance of the Gallagher brothers, there are few things in life capable of compelling the masses ...

Illustration by Federico Manasse. T he legendary Dinamo Kyiv side marshalled by Valeriy Lobanovskyi was widely viewed as a precise, scientific machine with clearly-defined roles. But there was one ...

M any bands have penned odes to their hometowns over time, singing the praises of their local streets and parks. The Beatles waxed lyrical over Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields; The Kinks invited us ...

H is dense, dreaded hair was covered by the tam that he was rarely seen without and that had since become symbolic of reggae Jamaica in the Western world. Draped over the casket was the green, black ...

As football and Ajax strode into the modern era, they, like many other teams across the continent, made some refining touches to their crest. In 1991, the pencilled drawing of Ajax was switched up for ...