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Joel ParkerFK Krasnodar: From Russia with LoveSince the break-up of the Soviet Union and the foundation of the Russian Premier League in the early ’90s, football in the world’s biggest…Jan 4, 2019Jan 4, 2019
Joel ParkerFootball Classics Revisited — How Mourinho’s super-organisation made one of Inter’s Greatest…Meetings between Spanish and Italian clubs are a regular occurrence in European football. Not only are games between them are very…Dec 7, 20181Dec 7, 20181
Joel ParkerFootball Classics Revisited — How Guardiola’s Barca picked apart Mourinho’s Madrid (Real Madrid…In the 2010/11 season, Real Madrid and Barcelona drew each other in the semi-finals of the Champions League for the third time in the…Nov 21, 2018Nov 21, 2018