It’s esoteric perhaps but I think Bale and Beckham might be slightly less significant than people like the Hogg brothers, who introduced football to Argentina. Bale won’t enter Real’s all-time greats, James Hogg helped found one of the world’s most important football nations.

Was it you who did the China long read? Thank you for the continuing service if so

What’s with the bizarre AI generated comments on this post?

Finally some good news for Reading.

I’ve seen the Saudi league attendances, are we forgetting about not leaving white elephants in our wake?

Incredible how every single Australian and Canadian Croatian sports club badge has the 1941 version of sahovnica. Doesn’t seem ideologically different from a German sports club using Nazi colours.