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It’s been one week without football and I’m already going mad. The COVID-19 pandemic we’re currently living through has put on hold pretty much everything I, and most people, am interested in or was looking forward to. No football for at least a month and a half and the postponement of the European Championships until …
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Salutations comrades, and welcome to the East side of the wall. Today we do the exact same thing we did for the west of England, but with players from the other side of the country. Remember that we’ve had a significantly smaller geographical area to work with here, and most of England’s best players were …
Afternoon all, and welcome to West England, where capitalism conquers all. Today we take a look at a hypothetical western team, basically made up of players who don’t hail from East Anglia. You’ve all seen the map by now. Much like the real world, it’s true that this team is probably a lot less interesting …
So, here we are, everyone. After hours of gruelling research that has forever made me not want to set foot in the Eastern side of Germany, here we are. The five teams from the Cold War era have been constructed and now it’s time to test them on the international stage. Hypothetically. In this scenario …
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On the 12th of June 2020, the European Championships will kick off with Italy hosting Turkey at the Stadio Olimpico. From then on, it will be a summer-long spectacle of some of the finest players the continent has to offer, as we hop from nation to nation trying to keep track of where it is …
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 …
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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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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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 …
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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