The word “skullduggery” is defined as “underhanded or unscrupulous behaviour; trickery”. It has been intertwined with football since time immemorial, exhibited in various degrees. It has been employed ...

The year is 1872. Ulysses S. Grant is elected president of the US, Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park, and the first case of Horse Flu is reported in Toronto, Canada, which will ...

Dale Vince, who's been in charge at Forest Green Rovers for over a decade, isn't like your typical football club owner or entrepreneur ...

It’s been 30 years since Sampdoria lifted the Scudetto. Where has the time gone? As part of the celebrations, These Football Times and Cult Kits have joined forces for a weekend of fun, with features, ...

Leeds were relegated from the First Division in 1982. Perhaps it wouldn't have happened if Clough or Stein’s stay stretched beyond 44 days ...

Originally featured in the sold-out River Plate magazine, support high-quality, wholly independent journalism by ordering our magazine. It’s what keeps everything online free. When Juan “Tano” Fazzini ...

The era-defining brilliance of Romário, who redefined the striker role, may have peaked in Barcelona, but it was very much made at PSV ...

Part of Ajax’s 1995 Champions League-winning side, Ronald and Frank de Boer would follow each other around for the rest of their careers ...

Lifted from Fluminense to the opulence of Old Trafford without having played a senior match, there was a romance and a pleasing symmetry to Fabio and Rafael da Silva’s start to life in English ...

Before RB Leipzig emerged on the scene a few years ago, East German football was irrelevant in the great scheme of things ...

With a win percentage better than Louis van Gaal's, Bobby Robson remains one of the best, modt underrated Barcelona managers of all ...

The only Ukrainian footballer to ever win the Ballon d'Or, Oleg Blokhin's records stand him out as perhaps the greatest Eastern European footballer of all ...