TODAY marks 120 years since an English side took football outside the continent of Europe for the first time. On June 25, 1897 the great amateur side Corinthian F.C. embarked on the mother of all pre-season tours as they left Millwall Docks to set sail for South Africa and bring the beautiful game overseas. Over […]
FIFA’s secretary general yesterday scoffed that our war dead are not special enough to merit England players wearing poppies. Fatma Samoura said: “Britain is not the only country that has been suffering from the result of war.” The ex-UN diplomat, born in the West African country of Senegal, said: “Syria is an example. My own continent […]
OUT-of-touch FIFA bureaucrats who are blocking England and Scotland players from wearing poppies on their shirts for their World Cup qualifier clash on Armistice Day, have clearly lost their memory. They forget the great debt the world owes to footballers who were killed or injured fighting for freedom in two World Wars – victories that […]
THERESA May has slammed Fifa’s “utterly outrageous” ban on poppies being displayed on England football shirts. The Prime Minister joined forces with the Sports minister Tracey Crouch to back The Sun’s campaign to overturn the heartless decision by the governing body. At Prime Minister’s Questions this lunchtime she attacked Fifa, which has been plagued by […]
THE birth of football outside of Europe, the inspiration for 11-time European champions Real Madrid’s famous white kit and even the word soccer all came from a team currently in eighth tier of English football. Corinthian FC — now known as Corinthian Casuals — were football pioneers, and the first truly, great team, who now […]