I think I have my United back Last year I wrote an entry titled “I want my United Back!” It was around mid-season and I was agonizing over the poor play, lack of leadership, missed opportunities, too many ties and what I perceived to be loss of the core value of United: The will to Read More
Your Stories
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Football’s greatest-ever hoax: Was the 1958 World Cup faked by the CIA?
By Joe Sharratt Watching grainy footage of a swaggering 17-year-old Pele taking host nation Sweden apart with a blistering brace in Brazil’s 5-2 victory in the 1958 World Cup final, it’s hard to accept the possibility that the entire thing was faked. But according to historian Bror Jacques de Wærn that is exactly the problem; Read More
Who Was The Most Creative Person Who Ever Lived
By Amnon Zohar Here is my favourite Football story of all times: Many years ago, in fact it was the spring of 1983 when the top executive of the multi-national corporation I worked for at the time, hosted a dinner for some twenty odd Country Managers in Mexico City. These were the days: posh restaurant, Read More
Symphony Orchestra – Conducting Leo Messi
It is the winter of 2011. My wife and I spent this year on a sabbatical from our home in Toronto, Canada to study at Tel-Aviv University in our original homeland of Israel. Last night I went, this time by myself, to watch what was touted as the biggest football (soccer) match of the entire Read More
My Football Journeys
My wife and I travel around the world. My wife taught me to like Opera, Ballet, Theatre and Classical music and I taught her to like Football. We’ve been together to Wembley in London, San Siro in Milan, Olympico in Rome, Camp Nau in Barcelona, Bernabau in Madrid the Bonbonera in Buenos Aires and the Maracanã Read More