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FM20 Project: The Coaches, Episode 15 – Semi Final First Leg

Sliding Doors: Italia ’90, modern football and England expectations

FM20 Project: How realistic is Football Manager?

Italia ’90: How West Germany lifted the 1990 World Cup

FM20 Project, The Coaches: The finalists

Italia 90: England defender Paul Parker’s World Cup semi-final heartbreak

Managerial disasters: Bulgaria legend Hristo Stoichkov at Celta Vigo

Italia ’90: All Played Out author Pete Davies’ World Cup memories

Italia ’90: A gateway to a changing world

FM20 Project: The Coaches, Episode 14

Italia 90 quiz: Name all of World Cup 1990’s goalscorers

Italia 90: The changing face of World Cup TV coverage

Gerry Armstrong: Remembering Northern Ireland’s 1982 World Cup heroics

World in Motion book: Retelling Italia 90’s most famous tales

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 13

World Refugee Day: Goal Click’s football mission

Italia ’90: Roberto Baggio’s magical goal against Czechoslovakia

James Richardson: The inside story of Gazzetta Football Italia

World Cup songs: Italia 90’s best and worst tracks

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 12

World Cup porn: When Italia ’90 stars appeared in a seedy football film

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 11

World Cup 1990: What Italia ’90 means to me

England vs Brazil 1970: Abraham Klein’s World Cup memories

Why coronavirus could see more South Americans playing in Europe next season

Italia 90 quiz: Name the 24 World Cup qualifiers

Italia 90 quiz: Name England’s World Cup squad

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 10

‘Bloody Southerners’: Remembering Brian Clough’s short-lived spell at Brighton

Liverpool in 1990: The story of the Reds’ last title win

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 9

Football Haikus: Can you solve our riddles?

The unlikely international: The non-league footballer living a double life

The 10 Greatest Matches In European Championship History: England 4 Netherlands 1, Euro ’96

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 8 – How to win on Football Manager

One season, two relegations: Dave Bassett’s nightmare 1987/88 season

The Sun in Liverpool: Life as England’s most-hated football reporter

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 7

Sliding Doors: Jose Mourinho and the errant offside flag

Footballers’ hair cuts: The worst looks to ever grace a pitch

The longest season: Why the 1946-47 campaign dragged on and on

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 6

Ronaldo at Inter: The end of the Brazilian striker’s first phase

Peter Butler: The ex-West Ham midfielder tackling global dangers

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 5

Arsenal’s Invincibles: How one defeat triggered the downfall of Wenger’s legends

Tajikistan’s Vysshaya Liga: The league continuing in the face of Covid-19

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 4

Newcastle United: The Champions League night at the San Siro that lives long in the memory

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 3

FM20 Project, The Coaches: The squads

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 2

Arthur Wharton: Football’s forgotten pioneer

FM20 Project, The Coaches: Episode 1

Vox in the Box: Chris Evans, new editor of The Set Pieces

Anatomy of an own goal: Jon Walters

An unlikely saviour: Remembering Roy Hodgson’s successful spell at Inter

Anatomy of an own goal: Tony Popovic

Fred Spiksley: One of English football’s great unknown characters

Anatomy of an own goal: Kakha Kaladze

Anatomy of an own goal: Andy Myers

Shoe salesman to football pioneer: Arrigo Sacchi’s path to greatness

Anatomy of an own goal: John Arne Riise

A modern football fairytale: Burton Albion’s rise through the divisions

Goal Click: The Women’s World Cup

Anatomy of an own goal: Gareth Bale

Boxing Day 2008: The day Phil Brown gave his half-time team talk on the pitch

Anatomy of an own goal: Adrien Gulfo

Anatomy of an own goal: Richard Dunne

Anatomy of an own goal: Andrea Consigli

Anatomy of an own goal: Inigo Martinez

The rise and rise of university football: Meet the students bridging the gap between professional sport and study

The case of Loris Karius, and why sports psychology is so important in the modern game

Alexandre Villaplane: The French midfielder turned Nazi collaborator

Anatomy of an own goal: Santiago Vergini

Out with the Old: When Dundee United and Aberdeen challenged the Old Firm

Anatomy of an own goal: Jefferson Lerma

The remarkable story of Richard McFadden, the Leyton Orient forward killed in the First World War

Anatomy of an own goal: Carl Jenkinson

Wolves have grand ambitions, but they’ll struggle to recreate the glory years of the 1950s

Doncaster Rovers, 1997/98: The most disastrous season in Football League history

Why futsal could be the key to future international success for England

Moses Ashikodi: The once-hyped teenage starlet who instead became a forgotten man

League Cup semi-final is just reward for Burton’s remarkable progress

Remembering Barnsley’s Premier League adventure in 1997/98

Great Goals That Weren’t: Rivaldo vs Deportivo La Coruna (2002)

Non-League for Grenfell: How football is helping the campaign for change

Football’s biggest fairytale: Remembering Iraq’s unlikely triumph at the 2007 Asian Cup

The most wonderful time of the year: Exploring the origins and history of festive football

The Lion Rampant: How Salford City’s on-field rise has reinvigorated the local area

On Closer Inspection: Why Michael Essien should be held in higher esteem

A land far, far away: In search of Cornwall’s football identity

FC Kitzbühel: The Austrian club revitalised by an English touch

Forget Martin O’Neill, the problems with Irish football run much, much deeper

On Closer Inspection: Roy Evans and Liverpool’s Spice Boys

Jürgen Croy is one of Germany’s greatest ever players. So why has no one heard of him?

Northern Ireland vs Republic of Ireland, November 1993: The most politically charged game in living memory?

Remembering the England B team – would the Three Lions benefit from its return?
