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Pride, passion and tears: Italy’s 1990 World Cup Campaign
Get Issue 8 of The Football Pink – the Italia ’90 25th anniversary special HERE BY RICHARD HALL Nostalgia is a term that describes sentimentality. It comes from the Greek words ‘nostos and algos’ which...
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Ipswich Town and the UEFA Cup dream
Chris Clark looks back at a great period of football with Ipswich’s Paul Mariner Whilst Studio 54 was the place to hang out for the disco fraternity in the 1970s, Portman Road was the place to be if...
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Side by side – soldiers enjoy the ‘Khaki Cup Final’
This article first appeared in Issue 5 of The Football Pink On April 24th 1915 Sheffield United beat Chelsea by three goals to nil in the FA Cup final at Old Trafford, the only Cup Final to be played...
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The Ibrox Disaster 1902 – A National Tragedy
This article is being re-published on The Football Pink courtesy of Iain Duff. You can follow him on Twitter @iainduff and we recommend you check out his website here https://iainduff.wordpress.com/...
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The Wanderers return hoping to grace the FA Cup once more
BY MARK WILSON One of the great Victorian football clubs – defunct for over 120 years – have been reformed with the aim of raising money for charity and the dream of competing in the FA Cup; the...
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Maradona vs. Maradona
BY MARK GODFREY One had the name that would make anyone sit up and take notice. The other was the name; the brand, the persona, the icon, the legend. It may have lasted a mere 32 minutes, but on the...
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Bohemian Rhapsody: Masopust and Dukla
With the recent passing of Czech great Josef Masopust NEIL JENSEN remembers his great career and the impact he had on European football. Cold War Europe was a sinister place. Behind the Iron Curtain,...
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Tahiti and the little miracle of the Maracana
BY MAT GUY It is June 20th 2013 and the 79,000 seat Maracana stadium in Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil, a stadium that used to hold 200,000 people in its heyday, is preparing to host a Confederations Cup group...
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Bring me sunshine – The rise of Luton Town
BY MARK GODFREY Thanks to the patronage of one of this country’s finest ever comic talents, unfashionable Luton Town achieved virtual cult status at a time when their fortunes on the pitch were...
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Holland 1974-88: Divinity, wilderness and redemption
BY MARK GODFREY West Germany 1974. Summer time. The FIFA World Cup. It was a time of change, of things being stood on their heads. Firstly, the supposedly mighty England didn’t even make it to the...
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From Ice Station Zebra to the Promised Land – Oldham’s golden era
BY MARK GODFREY They were the first, but wouldn’t be the last. Former Everton and Manchester City star Joe Royle had been in the job for just a few weeks shy of five years, maintaining Oldham...
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Triumph and tragedy – the death of Jock Stein, 30 years on
BY STEVE MITCHELL The qualifying groups for the 1986 Mexico World Cup had paired Wales and Scotland together once again after the two countries had battled it out eight years previous for qualification...
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Tino and Newcastle’s Entertainers – The last hurrah
BY MARK GODFREY In my experience, taxi drivers across the world are all very similar. When they have a foreigner in their cab, conversation usually turns to where the visitor hails from, and in turn,...
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Prejudice and curiosity: Football’s first black African touring party
BY MICHAEL HUDSON In early September 1899, 111 years before South Africa’s World Cup and with the Boers and Britain manoeuvring back towards war, 16 black footballers – captained by a grocer and...
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Unlikely European Heroes, Part 1 – IFK Gothenburg
Long before the days when the Champions League gobbled up all of Europe’s footballing attention (and revenue), and the continent’s giants dominated the roll of honour in such an absolute fashion as...
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Unlikely European Heroes, Part 2 – Dinamo Tbilisi
In part 2 of our series on unfamiliar clubs having their name etched on European trophies, we look back at one of the finest teams to come out of the Soviet Union. BY MARK GODFREY One could be forgiven...
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Unlikely European Heroes, Part 3 – Eintracht Frankfurt
The third instalment of our unlikely European series focusses on Germany at the turn of the 80s. BY GLENN BILLINGHAM Bum-Kun Cha. Jurgen Pahl. Friedel Rausch. One is a South Korean footballer who made...
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Unlikely European Heroes, Part 4 – KV Mechelen
Next up in our series looking at the clubs who came from nowhere to win European silverware, we turn to Belgium. BY JACK UNWIN The European Cup Winners Cup, UEFA’s forgotten bastard child, has lain...
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Unlikely European Heroes, Part 6 – Dinamo Zagreb
Next in our series of unlikely European winners, we look at Dinamo Zagreb’s triumph in the old Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM Dinamo Zagreb are one of those few European teams who can...
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Unlikely European Heroes, Part 7 – Slovan Bratislava
BY ANDRE LEDEZMA Football articulates the imaginary and the real. It would be better to say, football builds a space between the imaginary and the real and disarms the classical binary opposition...
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