Portsmouth have been bought by a Serbian-American electronics magnate. Steven Morgan is chuffed, so far
The sight of grown men behaving like kids has not been confined purely to footballers on holiday this summer. Serbian tycoon Milan Mandaric’s £5 million takeover of Portsmouth has seen long-suffering supporters on the south coast spend the close season pinching themselves in disbelief.
A fractured league system in Bosnian football continues to hamper the national team, as Mirsad Cviko explains
Season 1998-99 could be the turning point for football in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Incredibly, after a disastrous run of results last year, the national team still has a chance of qualifying for Euro 2000 and there now seems to be a possibility that pressure from UEFA will bring about a unified national league.
With the possibility of expulsion from next season's domestic cup competitions, a group of Everton fans have come together in an attempt to save the day, as Mark Tallentire explains
Given the premature proclamation by the FA’s interim executive director David Davies that Everton and Tranmere Rovers may be banned from next season’s FA and Worthington Cups unless Peter Johnson sells his stake in one or other of them, it is timely that a group of Evertonians have already taken it upon themselves to try to give him a helping hand.
Padraig McKenna gives his assessment of chairman and lifelong Forest fan Eric Barnes
Distinguishing features A new face to those of us who do not consort with the business elite of the east midlands,our only exposure to Eric so far has been through the media. The image that springs to mind most readily is a rather severe looking, balding man with big glasses standing uneasily in a deserted City Ground, presumably trying to exclude the thought that this could be a foretaste of our future.
After an unhappy year in Japan and his recent retirement from the Bulgarian national team, could a move to Watford be on the cards for Hristo Stoichkov? Mark McQuinn weighs up his options
As Hristo Stoichkov left the field 16 minutes before the end of the European Championship qualifier against England in Sofia on June 9, the prolonged and passionate applause from his adoring public showed more clearly and touchingly than the post-match eulogies what “The Dog” means to his people.