Worst football injuries
Football is full of injuries – and medical vacantions disguised under injuries – but let’s take a look at a few of the worst football injuries to ever happen. David Busst’s injury One...
Category: Football history
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk’s rise and fall
It pains me to write this, but the end is near for a club which wrote history for its country. In both Soviet Union and independent Ukraine, one particular season being the climax of...
Hungary at the 1954 World Cup
Hungary had become a force in the European football after World War II. Between 1945 and 1950 they went undefeated, scoring 105 goals in 27 games. They didn’t go to the 1950 World Cup...
Croatia at the 1998 World Cup
I’m well aware Croatia’s performance of reaching the World Cup final last year is the best performance of a somehow underdog in the circuit and it will remain in the football history for a...
Bulgaria at the 1994 World Cup
In a series of underdogs with notable performances at final tournaments, Bulgaria would no doubt top it, back in 1994. A team representing a country struggling in the post-Communist economic climate came from nowhere...
Milan under Arrigo Sacchi
The beginning of the 80s was probably the darkest period in AC Milan’s history. In 1980, the club was relegated in Serie B by the Italian Football Federation after a betting scandal with Lazio,...
Top 4 worst incidents in football
Football is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, sports worldwide. It is also arguably the most intense, so the passion you meet to a football fan is stronger than the...
Grande Inter, under Herrera
Helenio Herrera became a relatively known figure in a post WW2 Spain after winning two league titles with Atletico Madrid during his management of the Colchoneros between 1949 and 1952. The six years that...
Underdog stories in European football: Domestic champions
Arguably one of the reasons we love football so much is because it can provide some really good underdog stories, with a couple of teams no one would expect to see at top level...
Football’s current state
The sport we love is changing and will probably never be the same again. This is as undeniable as it gets, when you take on a deeper look at the current state of football...
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