If Penalty Rebounds Are Scrapped The “D” Could Go
For many fans of the game they can be hugely divisive, to say nothing if you are a player and indeed directly involved. Penalty rebounds…
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Don’t You Dare Score! Football Clubs Avoiding Costly Contact Clauses
Robert Lewandowski recently revealed that Barcelona asked him to stop scoring. In a new biography of the player, written by Polish author, Sebastian Staszewski, it…
The Goal Has Been The Same Size For 150 Years – Should It Be Made Bigger?
Every few decades in football, some conversations resurface as arguments and proposals get revisited. While there are only murmurings right now, the last time the…
What If The Two Points For A Win System In Football Was Still The Same Today?
Those old enough to remember will know that up until 1981, teams were awarded two points for a win and one for a draw and…
Football Matches That Have Been Called Off For Strange Reasons
Over the years, we have had our fair share of football matches called off – usually due to inclement weather – not that unusual at…
Great Footballers Who Have Played With Disabilities
Arguably an interesting one and probably not something that gets widely talked about, though there are actually a number of footballers who have, or actually…
Anders Limpar Time Travel Prank: One Of The Best Practical Jokes Ever Pulled On A Footballer
Over the years, we’ve heard about footballers being jokers and funny personalities – a couple who took it too far, some right up to the…
How The Footballers’ Battalion Came To Be
Perhaps from left of centre this one, though at the outbreak of the Great War (1914-1918), more commonly known as World War 1, arguments sparked…
Footballers Beginning With The Letter ‘Q’
For many people, there is a lot of intrigue about names. In football, especially the Premier League, we have seen many different nationalities of players…
Funny And Controversial Football Songs and Chants
In the UK at least, we have developed a knack of creating football chants and/or replacing lyrics of famous songs to something more topical. Many…