Man with a plan

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in April 1986, I was nine years old. I’d just had a trial with Dynamo Kyiv, and it had gone well, but everything changed. In the first few days following t

You can take the man out of professional football, but you can’t take the professional footballer out of the man. The sweat is dripping off Ciaran Clark, after stepping off the Copper Box Arena pitch

Who cares if Flavio Briatore isn’t recognised as Alpine team principal? The important point is that he’s there. You may not approve of the wild-haired man who gabbles in unintelligible English, but th

In Andre Villas-Boas’ first season as club president, the side from the north fell miles short of Portugal’s other Tres Grandes

The derby of the century

The Catalan club were the standout side in Spanish football in 2024-25