Back 149 years ago, Emirates airline collaborated with the Football Association to create the Emirates FA Cup, a new cup competition open to every football team in the country - except Manchester United, who were out in Brazil, playing in the Club World Cup.Over the past century and a half, the FA Cup has been host to some incredible moments of footballing history.Who could forget the Stanley Matthews final, where Stanley Matthews hosted the match in his back garden? Or "The Culture Club vs The Crazy Gang", where Boy George had his penalty saved by Dave Beasant?We've listed out every winning of the Football Association Challenge Cup, and it includes a number of sides which are no longer in existence.You've...
PSV are not happy bunnies. Prized asset Steven Bergwijn is apparently forcing a move from the Eindhoven-based club, as a number of Premier League sides circle, including Tottenham and Leicester. The winger caused a lot of buzz recently and should be in line for a call for this summer’s Euros.It's not the first time that he's been linked with English clubs either. Chelsea were apparently interested in the star when he was 18, while he's discussed rumours linking him with Manchester United in the past.But is Bergwijn worth the hype? Will he flourish in England post-PSV like GeorginioWijnaldum, or struggle to recreate his Eredivisie form like Memphis Depay?Ajax connectionThink of a Dutch talent factory and you probably conjure the picture...
In the UK on Sunday, football supporters woke up to a blistering segment on Sky Sports’ Sunday Supplement, in which The Telegraph’s Matt Law and The Guardian’s Jonathan Liew took aim at West Ham.It was good television. It was also unusual because the deeper issues at West Ham are rarely discussed, with debate generally limited to the problems with the first team and the head coach. While those issues are hardly irrelevant, they’ve always seemed more like a symptom than a cause under the current ownership and, as such, really beside the point."It's just a shambles, an absolute shambles. If they were to go down, that club could just fall apart."@Matt_Law_DT gives a scathing assessment on the current situation at...
In an era when we have so much information, so many ways and means to analyse a football club and its performance, it's often forgotten or overlooked that how you feel as a fan plays a big part in your supporting experience. Ask any Arsenal fan now how they're feeling and the majority will tell you that in comparison to last dark days of the Unai Emery era, it's better.When you look at results, perhaps it's hard to see that. Mikel Arteta has taken charge of seven games since his appointment as Arsenal manager. In that time he has won two, drawn four, and lost one; on the face of it, not a drastic improvement on what came before. Yet...
Sunday night sees one of the fiercest derbies in European football. It's the Derby della Capitale and the 190th edition of Roma vs Lazio at the Stadio Olimpico.The rivalry stems back to the 1927 - the yearAS Roma was formed. Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini mergedthree Rome clubs at the time together to create the red and yellow (Giallorossi) club we know today, in an effort to rival the dominance of sides from northern Italy.SSC Lazio, who were formed 27 years earlier, refused to cooperate with themerger. A rivalry was born, with Lazio deemed by Roma fans as the outsiders of the countryside, or'burini'('peasants').Yet this season, Lazio feel like outsiders no more - in fact, they are building into becoming the...