Andriy Shevchenko: The King of Ukraine
The history of Ukrainian football is inexorably intertwined with one name: Andriy Shevchenko. Sheva has been the dominant figure pretty much since his country gained independence in the 1990s, a...
Cult Heroes
CULT HEROES: GIANLUCA VIALLI
"The unwanted guest is still here with me."Gianluca Vialli described the return of his pancreatic cancer in December with the same gentle charm that has endeared him to football supporters...
Cult Heroes: Hristo Stoichkov
‘There are only two Christs,’ said Hristo Stoichkov before collecting his 1994 Ballon d'Or, ‘one plays for Barcelona, the other is in heaven.’The great Bulgarian, who turns 56 today, was...
Cult Heroes: Jay-Jay
You know the clip. You've seen it loads of times. But you'll still stop to watch it whenever it pops up on your Twitter timeline.It's Jay-Jay Okocha tormenting the world's...
Cult Heroes: Jan Molby
If you google ‘football’s chubbiest players’, it won’t be long before you stumble across a picture of Jan Molby. It’s fair enough – big Jan was exactly that – but...
Cult Heroes: Jan Åge Fjørtoft
There are only two clubs that have only ever managed one solitary season in the Premier League: Swindon Town and Barnsley. And there is one player that links both sides'...
CULT HEROES: ALEX
He’s a midfielder with over 400 goals and 350 assists in a career that spanned 19 years and remarkably saw him play 999 official matches. He represented the most successful...
Cult Heroes: Joaquin
Joaquin is truly one of the great footballing enigmas. His joyful and often childlike personality and sense of humour has made him one of the most recognisable sporting figures in...
CULT HEROES: PARK JI-SUNG
As a young man Park Ji-Sung’s dreams of becoming a footballer were faltering. Despite his talents he had been deemed too physically small to make it. To remedy this his...
CULT HEROES – JULIAN DICKS
Fights, wrist shattering penalties and a penchant for breeding bulldogs. It’s fair to say club legend Julian Dicks never did anything by halves in his decade at West Ham. Signed...
CULT HEROES - MAGICO GONZALEZ
"These fans are great but what they don't know is that there is a player even better than Pele and I." These are the words of Maradona himself on the...