A little magic hung in the air during Andrey Arshavin’s first morning in London but it was thick with uncertainty, too. Islington was covered in snow, its…
Half an hour before he walks across the car park to oversee training, Tom Loizou is selling tickets behind the bar at Coles Park. A local couple have strolled…
Jorginho (Chelsea) If Antonio Conte became used to not getting his way with transfers, the signing of Jorginho felt like the perfect sweetener for his…
Aleksandr Golovin (Russia) The whipped free-kick that flew past Petr Cech during Arsenal’s 4-1 victory over CSKA Moscow in April proved little more than a…
On a warm July night in Montreal almost 11 years ago Bartosz Bialkowski thought he might feel like this forever. He had just made a brilliant reflex save in…
Slavisa Jokanovic opted for some sporting cross‑pollination when asked whether, after two and a half years of battles won and lost, Fulham’s promotion from the…
Mick McCarthy does not waste much time on sentiment but football’s circularity will not be lost on him when he emerges from the tunnel at Birmingham on…
In Korce they love their football team and that is why, on 21 February, thousands of the Albanian city’s inhabitants gathered to sing for Skenderbeu. The rally…
