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What if 'What If Football' dedicated every day to the FIFA World Cup? Well, you'd get the 2022 FIFA World Cup Daily Podcast, from tournament previews to match reviews and, even on rest days,...
Think of Scottish football teams, I dare you. You’d go Celtic, Rangers then you’d be forced to go to an Aberdeen, Hearts or Hibs. But let’s...
Before Steaua Bucharest and Red Star Belgrade there was another team flying the flag for Eastern European in the European Cup. Whilst they m...
We owe quite a lot of how modern football is played down to one man. The pressing, the energy, the fitness, the team ethic: everything your...
The top table of European football is a closed shop now, we all know that. Getting your hands on the big-eared Champions League trophy is on...
Wolverhampton Wanderers fans need some good news after this year. Unfortunately, I can’t give you anything but sheer nostalgia. In this Issu...
Don Revie had made Leeds United the best football team in the country in the 1960s and 70s. Upon his departure, Leeds had ‘done a Leeds’ mul...
Don Revie built the foundations of Leeds United. They were back in the big time, they’d got their first shot across the bow with a title cha...
Regardless of where they might lie in the English football pyramid: Leeds United are a big football club. This is the objective truth no mat...
Ipswich Town were champions in 1962 but that was quite literally consigned to what little black and white footage existed of it. The Tractor...
Ipswich Town have been a breath of fresh air upon their Premier League return but it is widely accepted that they’ll probably go down this s...
The Berlin Wall fell 35 years ago this month. To celebrate, we’ve cobbled together a few stories from the history of East German football. F...
The Champions of Europe just drip off your tongue, don’t they? Real Madrid from Spain, Milan from Italy, Manchester United from England and...
We all love Der Klassiker, don’t we? When the biggest German sides battle it out: Bayern Munich and Borussia Monchengladbach. Wait, you expe...
Red Bull gives you wings, as the marketing strapline goes. Certainly, Red Bull has had the ability to give wings to several non-descript foo...
There hasn’t been a more unbelievable rise in modern day football from continental Europe. At the start of the 21st century, Union Berlin we...
The Czechs have been successful at the top of international football: precisely four of them that made up their 1976 European Championship s...
Despite being known as the European Brazilians, Yugoslavian football had a habit of being nearly men. But in the late 1980s, when the countr...
In the early 1990s, Croatia were one of a new band of nations admitted into international football after the dissolutions of multiple Europe...
Wales, the red-headed stepchild of British football. They could never have the glory or expectation of England, they couldn’t even lay claim...
1970 meant the most colourful spectacle on Earth: the FIFA World Cup held in Mexico. England were reigning champions, Brazil had a lad calle...
They were never supposed to win the Champions League. They had a new manager in a foreign land, they lost Michael Owen and Steven Gerrard al...
The Boot Room was dead. Kenny Dalglish burned out. Now what was there for Liverpool? The Premier League was sneaking up on them, Europe was...
Any normal football club would’ve folded. A stadium disaster that left supporters dead, a European Cup final lost and the lineage of great c...
Total Football was dead. The eighties killed all hope, with its wing-back system, sweepers in the backline and rampant hooliganism and stadi...
Pele called football “The Beautiful Game”, Cruyff declared “winning is an important thing,” and Mourinho said “if you have a Ferrari and I h...
The Champions League—i.e. good football—is finally back, except UEFA have decided to be wet wipes and change the future of the sport with th...
Rome both is and isn’t a football town. The people who live there might be crazy about the sport but the clubs who also live there aren’t re...
Napoli were just existing, living day-to-day with the survival in the jungle known as Serie A in the 1980s. Up north unimaginable glories an...
Italian football has a big three: Juventus, Milan and Inter. One’s successful back home, the other more so abroad and the other… neither her...
If you were told to mention the greatest teams in the history of Italian football you’d throw in clubs like Juventus, Milan, Inter, maybe ev...
Think of Italian football and you probably think of Juventus first. They’re the ones with the most Italian championships and their history i...
When the European Championship circles back around, we get strapped to the same tired chairs and we're forced to watch the same pictures aga...
The reign of Spain only fell on the plain of the European continent. They had lost their global crown and were a shadow. Football had transf...
Four years earlier, we had witnessed a potential greatest ever European Championship team when Spain won their second title. They only went...
The previous European Championship had been won by the rank outsiders in Greece. It felt like a partition between the old way football was p...
2004 was the European Championship of the Golden Generation. The hosts Portugal and also Netherlands had two eras combining to create intere...
UEFA had piloted the 16-team games in England, naturally, and it had done okay. Nostalgia aside, it was a serviceable tournament but nothing...
Modern football was here. The Premier League and Champions League were in full voice, the world game had been taken to the States and produc...
Italia ’90 was the cornerstone for so many football fan. The sport was a completely different ball game as the summer of 1992 turned up with...
Seemingly, the only way was down for UEFA, after they had staged the immaculate and perhaps greatest ever European Championships four years...
The Euros was on its deathbed. It seems hard to believe now, what with the incessant wall-to-wall coverage, build-up, hype and money that go...
UEFA had their tails up. They'd overseen quite possibly one of the greatest football tournaments ever bequeathed to the sport and now they b...
The European Championship is a monster of a competition. Second only to the World Cup and Champions League, every four years 24 nations come...