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Take a stroll down Edmiston Drive with the people who know it best - the fans! The Bear is the unofficial online Rangers fanzine, packed with features to get your blue blood stirring. Edited by David Edgar and Scot Van den Akker, and featuring articles from Bears all over the world, it takes a sideways...

The beguiling story of one boy’s dream to play in goal, that most British of positions, culminating in the moment when he faces the mighty Zico … If the French are the flair in midfield, the Germans the attack from the inside channels, the Italians the cry-foul defence, then Britain is the goalkeeper:...

July 1966: The dreams of an Iranian political correspondent are shattered to pieces when he is informed that instead of flying to Saigon, he will have to travel to London to report on the World Cup. To him, this is an insignificant matter at a time when the world is silently burning in the flames...

Lionel Messi is the greatest footballer of our time: a magician with uncanny ability to beat defenders, find space and score goals. 2016 saw him win the Ballon d'Or for a record fifth time, further emphasising his status as the greatest footballer in the world today, and possibly ever. Messi is Luca...

The remarkable story of Dundee FC Season 2010/11. On October 15th 2010 Dundee FC went into administration for the second time in seven years and the consensus was the Club would be lucky to survive. Thirteen members of staff were made redundant and the Club were given a 25 point penalty from the Scottish...

Didier Drogba...the name strikes fear into defenders throughout football and excites fans around the world. The giant forward's life story is as amazing as some of the goals which have turned him into a hero on two continents.Born in 1978 in Abidjan, the capital of the troubled African state of Ivory...

There’s a reason we are drawn to the incredible story of Jamie Vardy’s rise from non-league football to become a record-breaking Premier League and England international goalscorer…he’s allowed us to dream.In this age of multi-millionaire, Maserati-driving, cosseted footballers, the Leicester...

Having won the European Cup in 1968, Matt Busby had achieved his dream, completing the job that he had begun with his 'Babes' back in 1956. But it was also to signal the beginning of the end. Despite reaching a second successive European Cup semi-final, performances began to deteriorate and soon Busby...

This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939. It shows how the British government saw sport as an instrument of policy and cultural propaganda.

17 juin 2002. Sur un terrain lisse comme un billard, quelque part à l’autre bout de monde, Jacky Peeters envoie un centre parfait sur le front de Marc Wilmots. 1-0. Nous sommes au Mondial de football et l’adversaire est l’imbattable formation brésilienne. L’histoire s’écrit... furtivement...

…Boys, lads, men and women are laying into us. One bloke in full motorcycle leathers crashes his helmet down onto our heads. We have to retreat towards the pitch-side hoardings, slugging back on the move. The locals look well pissed off! They must have got some shitty Crimbo presents that year,...

George Best is widely regarded as the finest footballer ever produced by the British Isles. His death in November 2006 prompted lengthy analysis of his career and his standing in the game, a debate 'The Complete George Best' will help settle. Known primarily for his rock nroll lifestyle after his...

The Notts County Miscellany is a book on the Magpies like no other, packed with facts, stats, trivia, stories, and legend. Featured here are more than 100 stories on the world's oldest football club ranging from how the club was formed in 1862 up to little-known facts about Director of Football Sven-Goran...

When it comes to football chants, British fans surely must be top of the league. Throughout the country every weekend, stadiums ring with the sound of hundreds of thousands of supporters singing the praises of their favorite players, rubbishing the opposition, having a go at the ref, and waxing lyrical...