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2026 Sports Calendar
Sports calendars no longer work in neat seasons. They spill from one to the next. One competition bleeds into another, storylines overlap, and before one trophy is lifted the next draw is already being streamed on a grainy YouTube feed. For fans, that’s the joy of it. There is always…
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Champions League MW6 Review – Perfect Arsenal, Relieved Liverpool, and Lennart Karl
Champions League Matchday 6 had everything: comeback chaos, teenage stardom, a brewing crisis (that to me seems overblown) in Madrid, and one very loud audition for a World Cup ticket from Marseille. Here is how it all fits together. Our Champions League Team Of The Week is in with some…
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The Evolution of Barcelona’s Playing Style – from Cruyff to Flick
Camp Nou has always been a kind of football laboratory. Great coaches walk in, scribble on the whiteboard, and the sport walks out slightly changed. From Johan Cruyff turning Barça into a school of positional play to Hansi Flick arriving with German intensity and a high line that has TV…
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International Break Round-Up – Cristiano Ronaldo gets Presidential at the White House
International breaks arrive in a strangely abrupt way. One week you’re sunk into club narratives and VAR debates and the next you’re swept into a kaleidoscope of national colours, emotional whiplash and unexpected heroes. This particular window delivered more drama than most. There were red cards, nine-goal statements, immaculate defensive…
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Champions League Matchweek Four Review
Europe’s showpiece did its best impression of a football festival this week. There were boos you could feel in your ribs, a centre back who sprinted the length of the pitch like a 100-metre finalist, one of the planet’s sharpest finishers ticking onwards, and a Barcelona game that veered from…
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Should La Liga be heading to Miami this year?
Somewhere between a winter sun break and a boardroom experiment sits La Liga’s latest plan, a real league match in Miami on December 20. Villarreal against Barcelona, Hard Rock Stadium, a proper three-point fixture with the table breathing down its neck. This is not a friendly, not a summer tour,…
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