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07/13/2019

Welcome to the wormburner.

CommentaryEnglandNews The Wormburner: A Whole Lotta Questions (Fantasy Football, Draft)July 9, 2019 — by Rob Kirby — 0 The transfer window is hardest on the fantasy manager who just asks for a few simple certainties in life. They won’t be forthcoming. The Premier League landscape appeared vagu...

12/19/2018

Check out an amazing soccer academy for children in a slum in Delhi. By CultFootball cub reporter Rob Kirby for These Football Times

Sylvester Peter has dedicated much of his life to the children of Delhi's worst slums, using football as both a means of education and escape

10/05/2018

. on Messi's masterclass at Wembley: "This was a night when all there was to do was gawp at the player who can bend the game according to his own physical laws"

Barcelona’s 4-2 defeat of Tottenham in the Champions League at Wembley was an occasion just to stand and gawp at Lionel Messi, who can bend the game according to his own physical laws

09/20/2018

Jonathan Wilson () on Tuchel's (or rather not Tuchel's) PSG:

Leaving three forwards to float about and occasionally pull off a trick may be enough in Ligue 1 – but not when it comes to elite level. How have PSG not learned?

09/18/2018

ICYMI: read this interview with Santi Cazorla about his injury nightmare while at Arsenal

Santi Cazorla is starring for Villarreal after the horror injury that ended Arsenal career. He tells Sid Lowe of being cut up and put together again, his feelings for his former club and how close he came to retiring

09/13/2018

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/12/port-said-riot-egypt-football-fans-stadiums

Supporters are allowed to watch domestic games regularly for the first time since 2012 but they have to give details to the security services – and chanting could be monitored

07/17/2018

Shameless plug: lame article by CF sidekick Rob Kirby:

Day 24 During the World Cup, Howler will feature a different writer each day reflecting on the action, their experience of the day’s games, or just offering a consideration of what they’ve seen and felt so far. Today, Matt Kirby wonders at the oddity of the Third Place game. As neighbors France ...

10/25/2017

Co-celebration can be dangerous.

10/25/2017

A pitch in his basement in Kansas City. 10 years old, signed by Roma (academy, presumably).

Alessandro Cupini has more than 40,000 followers on Instagram and his own pitch in his basement in Kansas City which he will soon be leaving to join the Serie A club, getting around Fifa’s youth regulations thanks to dual-citizenship

10/23/2017

Good advice.

10/20/2017

Call it idealistic, or call it a great photo. Taken by Neel Shah.