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In this week’s version of his column, Dan Zeqiri discusses the footballing public’s disillusionment with International Football and offers a radical solution.. When Gary Neville used his newly acquired Daily Telegraph column to launch a passionate defence of the England team, many responded with a fair measure of cynicism....

Dan Zeqiri returns for the second of his weekly Wednesday columns. This week: how narratives come to be established in football… Applying crude reductionism and offering simplistic reasons to explain the results of football matches is nothing new, I’m sure. However, in the social media age, this habit seems...

The Five Way got back on track last week with a solid 4/5. After Saturday’s games we were riding high on a full house and went into Sunday with one of the safest bets, Inter vs Cagliari, the only one left to play. And then in unrivalled scenes, the...

Third Year History and German student, Tim Cole, reports from Berlin for Impact Sport on the experience of watching football in foreign climes… Though it may seem sad to some, one of my main concerns upon travelling to Berlin for my year abroad was from where I was going to...

The international break could well be viewed as an inconvenient caesura, arriving just as the new season was beginning to engross us all once again. However, it presents an opportunity to revise some of the well-worn debates surrounding the national team, as well as some arguments of more recent...

Last time we took a look at the first impressions Ander Herrera and Cesc Fàbregas gave in their Premier League debuts, for their new clubs at least. Now let’s move on to the next batch of Fresh Faces, and starting by passing judgement on one of Newcastle United’s new...

Well done everyone, we’ve managed to make it through the barren footballing wasteland of the summer to arrive once again at the pinnacle of world football, the English football league. After successfully navigating months of listless Saturday afternoons, we can return to the familiar weekly routine, because no matter...