The Multicultural Pitch

by Mohamed Haniff Sunday, the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, home stadium of the football club Sevilla, witnessed two historic events.  Firstly Athletic Bilbao under the tutelage of Marcelo Bielsa, who is being vindicated on a weekly basis, won their first game in this stadium for 18 years; and secondly the spectators got to see the first black player to ever suit up for Bilbao, in the form of youngster Jonas Ramalho.  This may seem like a strange...

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England vs. Spain - How it was won and lost

By Joshua Rogers -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------         DON'T MISSProgression or Regression - by Mohamed Hanif ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- La Furia Roja has been elegantly...

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Progression or Regression?

By Mohamed Haniff -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------         DON'T MISSEngland vs. Spain - How it was won and lost ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the wake of Spain's latest...

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How do you rank the Bavarian Giants?

by Reem In recent years Bayern Munich has endured a couple of indifferent seasons to say the least. In a league where the overall quality and standards of the game were once questioned, the power of Bayern Munich reigned, and continuously cruised to glory as they displayed some incredible football and absolute dominance in the previous times, swooping the Budesliga in 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2007–08. Therefore...

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Paul Scholes: 18 Quotes That Define A Legend

Bringing a close to his glittering twenty year Manchester United playing career at the end of the 2010/2011 season; whilst accumulating a total of twenty four club honours, Paul Scholes is now a name nestled within the club's all time greatest players.  His uncanny ability to disperse the most perfectly weighted and inch perfect 60 yard pass to one of his flying wingers, or to simply dismantle an entire defense by his cinch short passes; coupled...

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The Enigma of Nuri Sahin

The Enigma by Mohamed Haniff                 On Sunday the Bernabeu hosted for the first time in its history a match at noon; it was strange to see the Fondo Sur bathed in sunlight, but it was decidedly less intriguing to see Cristiano Ronaldo bag his fourth hat-trick of the campaign; moving his Liga tally for Madrid to an astonishing 79 goals in 75 games.  However,...

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Ballon d'Or Madness

We can speak about who the best footballer in the world is, and I am quite positive that most opinions will be strongly based on the undoubted ability of a certain attacking player.  But have we forgotten that this sport is a game with eleven different positions on the pitch? We're all aware of the astonishing offensive statistics both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo possess; subsequently granting them to be the underlying impetus;...

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