... so far been touched on in the press, is the effect it has had on the fantasy chairmen of England. The influx of oligarchs and oil barons has, quite simply, pushed the price of even a moderate football ...
For the first time the second tier will have more title winners than the top division
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5 August ~ For the first time ever, Bundesliga 2 hosts a higher number of former national ...
Uli Hesse on the fraught play-offs to reach the Second Bundesliga in 1991
4 June ~ Twenty-five years ago Hansa Rostock won the last-ever East German cup final, but that wasn’t the end of football in ...
... pile of English language books on Spanish football.
Fear And Loathing In La Liga: Barcelona vs Real Madrid takes a broader approach than most, looking closely at the impact of political and cultural ...
Dermot Corrigan reviews a highly eventful La Liga campaign, in which Real Betis, managed by an Irishman, defied the odds The long-term significance La Liga was formed in 1929, and Real Betis' win ...
Football's culture of greed will eventually have dire consequences, both for clubs and for those in charge of the game Two men have presided over a period of financial crisis in their respective spheres, ...
With the Berlin Wall coming down in October 1990, Paul Joyce recalls the first Bundesliga season where West Germany's teams met those from East Germany The long-term significance After reunification ...
Paul Joyce looks back at Lucerne's Nationalliga A triumph, their sole league title to date The long-term significance In 1987, the Nationalliga A was reduced from 16 to 12 clubs and the season was ...
... March 1938, the Austrian Nationalliga was renamed Gauliga Ostmark and became part of the German football pyramid. Jewish clubs such as Hakoah Vienna were disbanded mid-season and all references to Austria ...
Russia in 1992 and Spartak Moscow begin their era of dominance. By Saul Pope The long-term significance To a background of hyperinflation, widespread poverty and rocketing alcohol-related deaths, Russia ...
... ns’ representatives the reasoning is equally opaque. “At every Bundesliga match the standing areas are there and there are no problems, why should it be any different at international matches?” asks J ...
In its third full season the Bundesliga produced another different champion, Paul Joyce reports The long-term significance This season, the third of the Bundesliga, continued the trend that lasted till ...
In an extract from his new history of German football, Tor!, Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger recalls the sensation of the 1971 Bundesliga bribery scandal Despite his name, the German-born Spaniard Horst Gregorio ...
... undesliga was lacking “personality players who command a big fee”. While the rest of the country pondered the link between Alan Shearer and the word “personality”, Borussia Dortmund snapped up the ...