Luzenac: The fairy tale of a village team in Le Championnet
The beautiful game has known its fair share of romance and heartbreak. The story of French minnows Luzenac is a perfect example of how kind and how cruel the beautiful game [...]
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KP’s Euro Bite No. 4: The Taste of the Curtain Raisers – What can we learn from “Super Cup” success?
By Kate Partridge. The new English Premier League season has kicked-off, with Community Shield winners Arsenal snatching a late victory over Crystal Palace. But how often [...]
Premier League’s abundance of World Cup ‘keepers set to cause a stir
Plenty of goalkeepers grabbed our attention and won our affection in the World Cup. Comings and goings in the transfer window means we’ll be getting to see a lot more [...]
Premier League 2014/15 Season Preview: Part Two – The Full Predicted Table Is Revealed
By Mark Young. You have already seen the first half of the Offside Rule’s Premier League Predictions. Now find out what Mark, Lynsey, Hayley and Kait have to say on the [...]
The Offside Rule Treble – Football Manager, QPR’s new coach and a Chelsea legend under the spotlight
As a glorious summer of surprisingly clement weather and World Cup excitement draws to a close, the shortening days and return to Biblical weather events can mean only one [...]
Premier League 2014/15 Season Preview: Part One – Chelsea tipped for the title
By Mark Young. The new Premier League season is just days away; Lynsey Hooper, Hayley McQueen and Kait Borsay play prediction queens: who will finish where? I, for one, [...]
The Road to Recovery : How relegation may have saved QPR
By John Howell. Queens Park Rangers last stint in the Premier League could be crudely defined as ‘you get what you pay for’. With an influx of uninspired stars out for [...]
FIFA 15 will have “unprecedented” levels of authenticity. But can a computer game ever replicate reality?
By Tom Simmonds EA Sports, publisher of the FIFA series of computer games, have announced the extension of their “official sports technology” partnership with the Premier [...]
Pregnancy: The 2014/2015 Football League season has been conceived
By Laura Jones. Laura Jones looks at the nine-month gestation period of the Football League season. So Football League fans, your season has been conceived. Was your [...]
The ‘Unfriendly Games’ – The Commercialisation of Pre-season Friendlies
By All Blue Daze. No, no, I’m not talking about some uber-aggressive version of the Commonwealth Games just completed up in Glasgow. They were conducted with the [...]
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