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Back To The Drawing Board?

No doubt many modern day football fans will not have heard of the “Disgrace of Gijón” and the ramifications it had on the World Cup Finals. If they did they maybe would have thought a little harder about the final

Have You Lost That Loving Feeling?

The FIFA World Cup is the most watched sporting event there is. Being held every four years there is usually an excitement as another event approaches. Even though only eight countries have won the World Cup in 22 tournaments, and

NTFS #144 – Part 1 of an Interview With a Pioneer Of Sport for the Blind, Ron Anderson, The Point of Under Age World Cups, and Is Sport now the Opium of the People.

Not the Footy Show Podcast

We have interviewed some amazing people over the past 20 years on Not The Footy Show and in this episode we catch up with yet another remarkable individual. Ron Anderson lost his sight in his early 30’s, and as a

The Cost of Winning

Winning in Sport today s everything. Almost any sports fan or past player will have heard the famous line by the American sportswriter Grantland Rice, who famously wrote that “it matters not who won or lost, but how you played

Diluting Development Fees. Is it Simply Greed?

The English Premier League (EPL) was officially founded on 20 February 1992. The formation of the league marked a significant change in English football as the top clubs broke away from the traditional Football League, which had served as the