Every club unearths a gem here and there, and for Liverpool, Ben Woodburn was meant to be their next major prospect. The Welshman made an instant impact upon arriving in the side but would only end up featuring for the Reds on 11 occasions. So what happened to this promising talent? Where is he now?…
It’s hard to imagine football, a sport known for bringing people together, igniting an actual war. But in 1969, that’s exactly what happened between El Salvador and Honduras in what became known as the Football War. While the matches during the 1970 World Cup qualifiers were the spark, this was no ordinary clash between rival…
In the early 1990s, Gianluigi Lentini was the name on every football fan’s lips. Lentini was a football prodigy whose electrifying pace and dazzling dribbling turned heads across Europe. Born in the modest town of Carmagnola, near Turin, Lentini’s meteoric rise from Torino’s youth academy to becoming the world’s most expensive footballer was the stuff…
County Tyrone native Adrian Doherty was not like the rest of them. He was frequently mentioned alongside Ryan Giggs as one of Manchester United’s most promising prospects from the historic Class of ’92. But in contrast to his peers, Doherty’s story is one of what could have been—a tale of genius denied by bad luck…
Whenever someone mentions Manchester United’s history, Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson are mentioned, along with players like Bobby Charlton, George Best, and Cristiano Ronaldo. But that one name that has more or less filtered into the background of the club’s success is Bob Bishop. The Belfast native’s inquisitive eyes for top-tier talent discovered…
F.C United of Manchester is a club founded by defiance. It was created in protest to bring football fans together, to avoid making the rich richer.
Sporting Fingal was a club that only had 965 days of activity but left their mark in outstanding fashion. The club were formed, won an FAI Cup as a First Division side, got promoted to the Premier Division, mounted a title charge, and made their European debut all in the space of their three-season existence….
Football fans often remember moments not for what happens on the pitch but for the drama that sometimes unfolds around it. That’s certainly true for Charlie Morgan, the Swansea City ball boy famously kicked by Chelsea’s Eden Hazard during a League Cup semi-final clash in 2013. What seemed at first to be an unfortunate, one-off…
In 2006, a small group of Romanian friends in London formed FC Romania with little more than a football and a shared dream. What started as a weekend hobby soon grew into something bigger—a beacon of pride for the Romanian community in the UK, a lifeline to their homeland, and an unexpected journey up the…
Paul Gascoigne, one of England’s most enigmatic and gifted footballers, has always been a magnet for drama, controversy, KFC and the unexpected. His career, full of dizzying highs and painful lows, took many unpredictable turns. But few were more bizarre than his short-lived and surreal stint in the remote province of Gansu, China. Yes, the…
