Another scintillating end to Olympic football. The wait is over. Mexico has finally lifted it’s first gold medal; one which was earned for – for a very long time by Brazil. Asia and Central America did us proud while Europe disappointed us. Africa managed to pull off some…
I was ready. Ready with some paint. Blue and red. Ready to go ballistic with the car horn, which would have been a strange occurrence on these streets, for I was part neither of a wedding, nor a club victory nor a celebration of national importance. But the…
Some things in life as we know are and will always be true. A dolphin sleeps with one eye open. Every second, Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate. The sun rises from the east and sets in the west. And a football game between Uruguay and UAE…
On June 9th, 1990, at 5:00pm (Italy time), United Arab Emirates (UAE) made history by playing their first World Cup match against Columbia under Brazilian manager Carlos Alberto Gomes Parreira in front of a crowd of approximately thirty thousand at the Stadio Renato Dall’Ara in Bologna. The same year…
When the season finally comes to a finish, there is a sudden lull in life that a football supporter finds himself/herself in. There is the pain of waiting three months to see some serious action again. Three months of Saturdays lost Saturdays and Sundays not knowing what to…