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“It was Holland in the 1970s that really took my breath away. It was a mystery to me. The television was too small; I felt like I needed to see the whole pitch fully to understand.”
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Arrigo Sacchi
WORDS: DOMINIC BLISS
The Africa Cup of Nations is feted as a stage for artistry, creativity and improvisation but the opening game of the 2013 tournament turned out to be a dull and predictable affair, as South Africa looked anything but “the hosts with the most” on the pitch. We ponder whether the flair is yet to come…
INTERVIEW: DOMINIC BLISS
You may have seen #SOSRealOviedo trending on Twitter recently and wondered what it was all about. We spoke to the man behind the hashtag, Sid Lowe, about the fight to save one of Spain’s grand old clubs by selling cheap shares to thousands of concerned football fans around the world…
WORDS: DOMINIC BLISS
Back in the Fifties and Sixties, the inside-left was king on the football grounds of Britain. A creative visionary, with genius in his left boot and eyes in the back of his head, Johnny Haynes was perhaps the best of all. We took a look at the enduring significance of the former Fulham and England captain…
WORDS: DOMINIC BLISS
For the first time ever, the Nineties saw overseas domestic football find its way onto British television as Channel 4 began screening Football Italia. A whole new generation of calcio fans was born in the UK and one of them has chosen his Serie A team of the decade for TheInsideLeft. But do you agree?
INTERVIEW: DOMINIC BLISS
Antigua and Barbuda have already progressed further than ever before in World Cup qualifying and, this week, face back-to-back fixtures against Guatemala to try and place themselves in a strong position in their group. We spoke to Tom Curtis, the English coach at the helm of the Benna Boys…
WORDS: GERARD MEIJER
After winning the European Cup in 1970, Feyenoord had much more to look forward to. In the coming decades, Gerard Meijer would work with characters as memorable as Johan Cruyff, Ruud Gullit and Pierre van Hooijdonk but it was often the coaches who left the greatest impression on him…
WORDS: GERARD MEIJER
In the past 53 years, there isn’t much that Gerard Meijer hasn’t seen at Feyenoord. Working and travelling with the team, he has become a friend to some of the greatest names in the game. Still working for the club he loves, he tells TheInsideLeft about the best moments so far…
WORDS: LUKE JAMES and DOMINIC BLISS
Women’s football is growing fast in Britain thanks to the displays of Team GB at London 2012, but they have a long way to go to reach the heights scaled by early Twenties superstars Dick, Kerr’s Ladies, who played to 50,000 crowds before crossing the pond to take on the best the US men’s scene had to offer
INTERVIEW: DOMINIC BLISS
After scoring in Northern Ireland’s famous victory over hosts Spain in the 1982 World Cup, Gerry Armstrong later spent two years playing for one of the nation’s great overachievers, RCD Mallorca. It was the start of a love affair that endures to this day for Sky Sports’ longest-serving La Liga expert
WORDS: DOMINIC BLISS
An absence of sneers and jeers, a lack of cynicism and an overriding sense of tolerance and euphoria. Following the Japanese men’s team in the 2012 Olympic football tournament showed me that passionate support doesn’t have to be aggressive or divisive, just heartfelt…
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