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I think Carlos Bilardo probably did it. He was manager of Colombia before being manager of Argentina. But certainly very unusual.

Libero: Libero 102 | Trying To Make Sense Of The Business Of Football Every year football's rich and powerful gather at a West London hotel to do deals, shake hands and talk about the game in a way would be quite unfamiliar to anyone not in the posh seats at 3pm on a...

Libero on location from the FT Business of Football Conference.

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Does petty revenge against the NFL motivate Trump’s embrace of the World Cup?

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This features a competition to win a copy to the new edition of How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup.

This Friday at 1200 GMT, an It Was What It Was Q&A with Rob Draper and me.

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It's a terrible idea, as I've outlined.

Does petty revenge against the NFL motivate Trump’s embrace of the World Cup?

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Francisco Maturana and the rapid development of Colombian football, narcoball and the build-up to the 5-0… on It Was What It Was today.

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When an Arsenal stalwart managed Tottenham, then left, setting them on the road to relegation…

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Arsène Wenger's proposed change to the offside law is an abomination.

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This Friday at 1200 GMT, an It Was What It Was Q&A with Rob Draper and me.

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It Was What It Was’s World Cup Wednesdays continue on Patreon with 1954, and Hungary’s near miss in das Wunder von Bern.

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Francisco Maturana and the rapid development of Colombian football, narcoball and the build-up to the 5-0… on It Was What It Was today.

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When an Arsenal stalwart managed Tottenham, then left, setting them on the road to relegation…

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Could Tottenham actually go down?

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Could Tottenham actually go down?

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Arsène Wenger's proposed change to the offside law is an abomination.

#offside #var #wenger #fifa #ifab

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An interview with the great Bill Buford about his seminal work Among the Thugs.

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Is the history of the football the history of great individuals? Or are background structural forces more important?

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An obvious clanger from the Hungarian post office (Brazil switched to yellow because of defeat in that game, in which they wore white), as World Cup Wednesdays reaches 1950.

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That Grandish Pile of Swank

Tracing Leeds United’s place in the tradition of Northern Realism

Anthony Clavane for issue 9 in 2013

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As Arsenal’s mettle is questioned with every dropped point, the latest Libero (episode 100!) asks what we mean by ‘bottling’.

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The history of football hooliganism… today on It Was What It Was.

As a bonus for Patreon members, there’ll be an interview with Bill Buford, author of Among the Thugs, on Friday.

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An interview with the great Bill Buford about his seminal work Among the Thugs.

#football #literature #hooliganism

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As Arsenal’s mettle is questioned with every dropped point, the latest Libero (episode 100!) asks what we mean by ‘bottling’.

#arsenal #manchestercity #libero

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Libero: Libero 100 | Anxious Arsenal And The Definition Of A Bottle Job It is – it turns out – quite difficult to pin down an accurate definition of what 'bottling it' means and, therefore, which teams can be fairly described as having committed this failure of wil...

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What constitutes a ‘bottle’?

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How did Tottenham end up being relegated in 1977?

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