Losing My Favourite Game: ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’ with Alex Dieker

The Champions League makes its long-awaited return next week, but sadly for fans of football purism, one of last season’s outstanding sides won’t be contesting the round of 16. Ajax wowed everyone on their way to a last-gasp defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in the semi-finals of the competition last time out, playing the kind of […]

Love Letters To The European Union: The Mighty Finn

On the 29th March 2019, the United Kingdom is (currently) scheduled to exit the European Union. To celebrate forty-six years of peacetime and prosperity in Europe, this season we’ll be profiling the footballing history of each remaining member of the EU, looking at some of their most iconic matches and the players that have left […]

Love Letters to the European Union: Ça Plane Pour Moi

Sale of the Century

Napoli’s win at Juventus last weekend blew the Serie A title race open, as the reigning champions’ lead at the top of the table was cut to just one point, but there has been plenty of talk this season that manager Maurizio Sarri and a raft of his first team squad will be bidding ‘arrivaderci’ […]

Just Like My Father

The last couple of weeks have seen the spotlight fall on a new generation of players across Europe with one thing in common – their Dads were all superstars in the 1990s. But is there more to the hype surrounding these players than just a familiar name? And away from the highly rated, which youngsters […]

Vile Barrage’s Eurotrip - Episode 5: The Netherlands

Each month we’re sending our obnoxious Eurosceptic correspondent to a scout a different league on the continent, and asking him to file a report without using the phrases immigration, taking back control, loony left, or political correctness. Fat chance. This month we sent him to The Netherlands, which is a shame for them. “ […]

Oranje Crush

The Netherlands’ inability to reverse a seven-goal swing in their final qualifier for Russia 2018 against Sweden condemned them to their first back-to-back failure in international tournament qualification since 1986. With a severe lack of quality available to the national team manager, and the standing of the national league dipping by the season, TLF wants […]