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Rob Hughes

Monk in a Fiat is steering Napoli to glory

Luciano Spalletti could have retired. Yet not only is he back on the touchline, he is thriving

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Should Kane leave the Lane for Germany?

After overtaking his goalscoring record, the England captain could follow Jimmy Greaves to the continent

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Big Mick knows the heart of a smaller club

Why Luton Town's chief recruitment officer is the antithesis of state-sponsored moneyball

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A late tackle on ill effects of heading

Football officialdom may be finally acknowledging that the brain is vulnerable to repeated knocks, even with their precious ball

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Real and Barça openly crave a closed shop

The Spanish giants are still determined to force a breakaway European Super League on us

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A man of indescribable emotion

Gianluca Vialli was a man who chose his own paths and could articulate the reasons why

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Why Pelé, not Messi, was simply the greatest

The game of football, and the world, has lost one of its very finest

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Fifa won’t give the next Messi room to bloom

Gianni Infantino ignores the evidence that footballers’ bodies need to rest like any other athletes

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Where beauty without battle means nothing

Morocco's World Cup success has come through faith, committed defence and seemingly impenetrable will

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A century of not being given our ball back

More than a century ago scholars and businessmen went to South America to build railways or set up colleges. They introduced Argentines and Brazilians to football

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Foundation of youth helps desert bloom

Teenage exploits at the World Cup are once again making a mockery of the notion you can't win anything with kids

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Pushing bodies to the edge in the name of sport

Son Heung-min is the perfect case study for a game pushing players past acceptable limits by saturated schedules

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Tainted love: Qatar’s overshadowed World Cup

The World Cup should spark anticipation and joy. But, says one reporter who has covered 12 tournaments, the prospect of Qatar brings only corruption and misery

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The sacrifice that’s one last feat of Piqué

Gerard Piqué has played his final match for Barcelona. He may not have been blessed with athletic pace but he always played instinctively

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Men of iron hope to break Bayern’s grip

Is Union Berlin a German Leicester City in the making? Unlikely. But, this won't stop them trying

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Mocked man who got the last laugh

Ridiculed by Jack Grealish, "playing like Miguel Ángel Almirón" suddenly looks like something to be envied

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The beach boys creating good vibrations

Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso are on a mission to manage at the top

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The selfish genius with ego on his face

Kylian Mbappé is becoming such a prima donna that he risks destabilising the clubs that pay his fortune

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When football history repeats as tragedy

The tragedy is Indonesia is not remotely incomprehensible. They recur with dreadful regularity

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The new oasis of Cruyff’s total football

This weekend's Manchester derby is a reminder how, six years after his death, the Dutch master's vision still dominates the game

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The hypnotic blossoming of Kvaradona

The sporting talents of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, nicknamed Kvaradona, are surprising and thrilling

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Ageless and peerless, The Body kicks on

Robert Lewandowski embarks on a new chapter in his striking career

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Football loses sight of the real world

Another transfer window shows a sport increasingly at wild odds with the lives of those who follow it

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Storm clouds gather again over France

Not for the first time, France's national football squad is going into a major tournament facing internal strife

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Beauty and bling in the city of light

After so many false starts, will this be the season Paris Saint-Germain finally attain their Holy Grail of the Champions League?

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Ten Hag chases shadows of past glories

The Dutchman is just the latest Manchester United manager to struggle to shake off the ghost of Alex Ferguson

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Mes que un club in more than a mess

Barcelona, heavily in debt, have managed to go on a summer spending spree

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How going Dutch brought football home to England

Sarina Wiegman, the mastermind of that Euros win, is steeped in a rich coaching tradition

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Football in the wilderness

We should have just enjoyed a World Cup, but money means this year's will take place in winter

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Want sporting talent? Then look to Lisbon

The Portuguese capital is fast becoming the go-to place for elite football clubs looking for the world's best young talent

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Final twist for talisman from dictator’s city

Ukraine's captain, Andriy Yarmolenko, epitomises his team's cause but a play-off against Wales had a sting in the tale

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Last puff of the cigar for Italy’s old guard

Zlatan Ibrahimović could be forced to draw the curtain on an epic career. Meanwhile Italian football more generally is finding its place in Europe's ecosystem

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