We look to the coming season with daily previews as Europe's Top 5 leagues resume. The football superpowers that brought you goal-line technology & magic spray have yet a few more tweaks to our beautiful game. Brace yourselves, summer football is upon us! Earth will experience kick-off like never before. Perhaps a one-man kick-off? (Hey Zlatan Ibrahimovic!) The tweaks in question?...

The new Bundesliga season is upon us. We can all recite the most likely title contenders even in our sleep; Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Instead of focusing on their conventional strengths, I want to zero in on the quality of young players they have at their disposal. Both teams have contributed greatly to Germany’s era of revamped academy football...

Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1. These are the most popular football leagues, some might say in that order, in Europe today and in the World. But which of those can be called “the best”? Spoiler: it’s not as easy as you think to determine. Other Spoiler: It’s not the Premier League. I’m going to explain, as simply as I can,...

 It was March 1994. I was returning from Bible Study in church when I heard “Gooooalllll” ring out as I was about to enter our face-me-I-face-you ‘compound’ in one of Bariga’s crevice-riddled, muddy-water filled streets. We did not have a good television, so I peeked through one of the neighbours’ window just in time to see the replay of...

The 2006-07 AC Milan team: Paolo Maldini. Alessandro Nesta. Cafu. Rino Gattuso. Clarence Seedorf. Massimo Ambrosini. Kaka. Andrea Pirlo. Filippo Inzaghi, Andriy Shevchenko. All names you’re no doubt familiar with; all names of legends from Associozione Calcio Milano, better known as AC Milan. And a year you should keep in mind. The players above were at the core of probably one of...

On Sunday, hosts  France face Portugal in the final of the European Championships and one player would be at the centre of it all, Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo was at this stage in 2004 as a 19 year old teenager in a star studded Portuguese team led by Luis Figo. Portugal were hosts and had booked their place in the...

One of my earliest football memories is from the UEFA cup final between Inter Milan and Lazio. A young Ronaldo scoring the third and final goal of the game, three step-overs and he was past the goalie leaving him on his back side as he proudly strutted goal ward before slotting into an empty net. I was bemused, I...

Once again revenge is in the air. The tournament’s top scorers versus the meanest defense, two teams who have grown in confidence and quality as the tournament has progressed, two similar teams; dynamic and youthful but still with a lot of experience, the stage is set. Beware Les Blues, Die Mannschaft are coming. It was the 13th minute 2 years...

"......Vokes!!!!! I don't believe it!!!! It is the greatest night in Welsh football history, and Belgium are battered!!!!!" "I think this is what shock feels like Steve. This is absolutely astonishing!!!!" - Steve Barnyard and David Prutton (Commentators for the EURO 2016 Quarterfinal between Belgium and Wales).   Unarguably the standout result saw 'debutants' Wales defeat Marc Wilmots' Belgian charges who were...

The round of 16 has just been concluded and we saw some shocking outcomes. England was famously defeated by a hard working Iceland team of heroes, and Spain failing to penetrate a resilient Italian defence. Some players from the eliminated teams really lit up the Euros and I do not lie when I say the competition will not be...