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The strange case of Igor Belanov – the least remembered Ballon d’Or winner

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Belanov possessed incredible power and speed but, playing for an unfashionable team, his 1986 Ballon d’Or was a shock – as was his rapid decline

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From the archive ~ Would abolishing transfer fees benefit football?

With another transfer window almost done we look back to November 2000, when Pierre Lanfranchi and Matthew Taylor argued it was time for a new system

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Sutton v Leeds in 1970: Full-strength teams and Don Revie’s obsessiveness

With the two teams set to meet again in the FA Cup fourth round this weekend, we looks back at their previous match at Gander Green Lane

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Japan’s Club World Cup highlights shift from traditional powerbases

Plenty of football-mad cities are yet to host major tournaments or finals, but FIFA and UEFA are increasingly indifferent to passionate fanbases

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A history of England’s travelling support

An extract from a new book about the 1966 World Cup looks at how exotic visitors to that tournament inspired England’s own fans to travel abroad

29 June ~ The England squad that travelled to the 1962 World Cup in Chile had to endure a flight with two separate changes to Lima where they played a warm-up game against Peru before moving on to Santiago, then Rancagua where they would play their group games and then bus to their base at the Braden Copper Company staff house in Coya, some 2,500 feet up in the Andes. The journey of over 7,500 miles would have taken them more than twenty four hours. Hardly an ideal preparation for the tournament.

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