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Football Culture

Fashion, music, food, friendships, off-pitch stories that are still very much football.

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Daniel Amartey: from Premier League miracle to free agent

Daniel Amartey was part of one of English football's great fairy tales, lifting the Premier League title with Leicester City as a raw 21-year-old.

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Gündoğan and Icardi: Man City Meets Inter at Galatasaray

Do you have a high football IQ? — Week 38, 2026
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Do you have a high football IQ?

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Robert Lewandowski & Dani Olmo: Bayern's Nine Meets Leipzig's Wonderkid

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Taarabt retires: revisiting his QPR magic

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Oumar Niasse's forgotten Norwegian spell

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Dennis Oliech: the season Auxerre needed him most

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Why some countries watch football free and others don't

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Hakim Ziyech & João Félix: Chelsea's Odd Couple

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Why broadcast football stats get it wrong

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Empty parks, full screens: why Italy's football talent pipeline dried up

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The transfer market has no mentality section, so clubs build it instead.

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Football's most reliable cheat: why simulation still pays

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The footballer every club fell out of love with: Michael Owen explained

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What makes a football match simulation feel real

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Carlos Kaiser: what actually survives the fact-check

Ronaldinho's 23-goal game: claimed, confirmed, never documentedCULTURE

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Ali Dia, Graeme Souness, and the call that fooled no oneCULTURE

Ali Dia, Graeme Souness, and the call that fooled no one

Süle scores, loses 7-2 on Kreisliga debut for SV TiefenbachCULTURE

Süle scores on Kreisliga debut — but Tiefenbach still lose 7-2

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TNT Sports at £31: how exclusive rights set the price

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The quiet king: why Marquinhos is the greatest one-club trophy winner in modern football

Gor Mahia hand Akonnor the keys — photo: Capital SportsCULTURE

Gor Mahia hand Akonnor the keys

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The clubs that kept falling: how Portsmouth's decline became the benchmark