Features

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A History of AC Milan in European Cup Finals

An occasional series that surveys, at a sauntering, indolent pace, eleven evenings of footballing infamy. What can we divine of football’s evolution and decline from those charged moments when this most storied of clubs stood on the brink of Eurosex climax?

Part One. 1958, Heysel. Milan 2 Madrid 3

Part Two. 1963, Wembley. Milan 2 Benfica 1 

Part Three. 1969, Santiago Bernabéu. Milan 4 Ajax 1

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The Metropolitan

They are bedfellows of modernity, but beyond blank geography, what binds a team to its metropolis? We explore the notion stalking the streets of football’s urbanity, that a club’s location cannot be entirely arbitrary.

Paris: We’ll Never Have Paris

New York: Working on a Dream

Trieste: Trieste & Italy, or how to get blood from a stone

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Old Masters

As politically incorrect as they are geo-politically inaccurate, GULag Old Masters is a space for justified nostalgia. All-time elevens drawn from regions lost to history; scintillating sides thrown together by arbitrary and abstract lines on maps.

Yugoslavia: Bad Seeds, Strange Fruit

Forthcoming: Scandinavia, British Isles, Habsburg Empire, et al.

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