Soccer

Marco Van Basten: One of the Greatest Players but a Career Cut Short by Injury Since his retirement from football in 1995, it has been claimed by many football insiders that Marco van Basten would have broken numerous records, and may well have been one of the greatest footballers of

The Story of John Ryan and How He Saved Doncaster Rovers Kurt Leyland interviews former owner John Ryan about the remarkable fall and rise of Doncaster Rovers Football Club. Twenty- three years ago, Doncaster Rovers nearly went up in flames… Former owner Ken Richardson had burned down a stand at

John Beck: The Football Tactician Who Was About More Than Just ‘Route One’ Football Historian Peter Kenny Jones returns to The Sporting Blog with the story of John Beck, a man known for his pragmatic tactics, and supposedly uncultured style of management. Yet there was success with Cambridge Utd and

A History of Football in Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler and football are perhaps not the most well-known partnership, nevertheless, there is an overlap between the two. Hitler’s Nazi regime is possibly the most well-researched and documented period of world history, yet not as much is known about