Author: Futbolgrad
Championship Manager All-Time Greatest (Post-Soviet) XI
By David McArdle -
Championship Manager (or Football Manager, when referring to its modern-day appellation) crystallised a band of binary football le ...
Latvian Oligarch Valeri Belokon and the Son of Deposed Kyrgyz Dictator
By Chris Rickleton -
How might Latvia’s leading soccer oligarch, Chairman of Blackpool Football club, Valeri Belokon, be linked to the ongoing crimin ...
Michel Platini in Kyrgyzstan
By Chris Rickleton -
It was a cool autumn night, and Michel Platini was in town. Yes, that’s right, the only man to have won the Ballon d’or three ti ...
Henrikh Mkhitaryan – Armenia’s Golden Nugget
By David McArdle -
Armenia’s latest World Cup Qualifier against 2012 European Championship finalists Italy was the match in which Henrikh Mkhitaryan ...
Manuel Veth
Manuel is a PhD candidate at the University of London King’s College, his topic is called: “Selling the People’s Game: Football’s transition from Comm ...
Chris Rickleton
Chris is a journalist and writer living in the distant Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan. A former editor of the offbeat Bishkek-based tourist maga ...
