Good day, internet dwellers, and welcome to another long-winded ramble about nothing of particular importance from yours truly. For today’s topic of conversation, you may remember from my previous post, me describing the Europa League as “big, convoluted, and unnecessary”, and I stand by most of it. There are far too many teams in that …
Today’s Eastern European Domestic Leagues
Greetings all, and welcome to the first part of a new series in which we ponder what life would be like if our favourite defunct tournaments of yesteryear were still alive and kicking today. To start things off, we’ll be looking at the good old former nations of the Cold War, and seeing what state …
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Cold War National Teams in 2019: Yugoslavia
Howdy lads, and welcome to the fourth and final part of our modern-day Cold War XIs. For those of you who read the first three articles and are somehow still here for a fourth, I commend you, and I wish I had more friends like you in real life. The final team we’re looking at …
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Cold War National Teams in 2019: USSR
Salutations comrades, it’s time for another long-winded post about how football may or may not look if the giant red star of socialism still reigned over eastern Europe. This time we’re looking at the big daddy of Communism, the Soviet Union (or the USSR). Don’t lie, you can hear the anthem going off as you …
Cold War National Teams in 2019: East Germany
Howdy lads, it’s that time of year again – the time of year we cast our minds back to the 1980’s and attempt to envisage the socialist utopia that was the east of Germany, and wonder what a team of East German footballers could achieve on the international stage. At least it’s the time of …
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Cold War National Teams in 2019: Czechoslovakia
Good morning everyone, and welcome to the first part of this series on modern-day Cold War football squads. As you can tell by the link you just clicked, part one involves us looking at a potential Czechoslovakian squad, to see if the combined talents of the Czech Republic and Slovakia would be any better than …
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The Robot Soccer League 