“shearer was rightly the main man, but being backup really ground me down over the years”

After joining the club as a schoolboy, John Terry rose to become one of Chelsea’s most iconic players and captains. Gianluca Vialli gave him his debut in 1998 but his breakthrough came in 2000-01, whe

The 27-year-old English coach has already enjoyed a unique career. Here, he talks about his journey thus far and future aspirations…

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH 6DUNDEE 0 Scottish League Cup, 1977 “I was 20 and captain of Dundee for the second leg of a League Cup tie – we drew the first leg, then got hammered away. There’s a time in your li

The Australian-born Iraq international sits down with World Soccer to reflect on a football journey that has taken him from Sweden to Brighton to Kurdistan

What was the first game that you ever attended? August 1971, I was five, against Stoke at Highbury. We lost 1–0. I just remember a strange smell and having never seen so many people in my life. I real

Being someone who preferred ballet to the boozer, was your love of culture ever held against you as a player? I’d say so, but not as often as you’d think. Nobody really cared. They tried to take the r