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Empathy For France At Wembley Stadium

The match is a place to escape reality at the end of the week and immerse ourselves in the game that billions love. By Matty Lawrence.

They came in as champions and Marcos Senna and Raúl went out as champions Sunday night, helping lead the New York Cosmos to the NASL title.

Dave Bowler goes one on one with Aberdeen’s former MLS player Barry Robson who has enjoyed spells with Vancouver and Celtic

Howard Kendall was part of one of the great midfields in the game, alongside Colin Harvey and Alan Ball.

isn’t it time that we took internationals out of the domestic campaign altogether and restricted them to the summer?

Brendan Rodgers was sacked by Liverpool this week while Sunderland part ways with Dick Advocaat in the latest EPL shake ups.

Central defender Gareth McAuley has been a key figure for the Northern Irish side at both ends of the pitch.

Sir Alex Ferguson is back in the news again, though it took the publication of a new book about leadership to get him centre stage once more.

Rickie Lambert had to take a pretty lengthy route to get to the pinnacle of Premier League football, England goals and the World Cup.

Matty Lawrence fumes at the turgid rubbish that was the European Championship qualifier between San Marino and England recently.