Author: Hugo Steckelmacher
Don’t call me Hugo any more. I’m English, don’t you know? So you have to change my name. At school, P.E. teachers insisted on branding me “Steckel”, although I …
After a turbulent season as replete with failure as success — an extremely disappointing league position and a whimpering exit from the UEFA Cup compensated only by a euphoric …
First off, as a sort of disclaimer I would like to start off by conceding that I am by no means an expert on the topic of football fanzines. …
For one reason or another, this season has seen a number of long-suffering back-up goalkeepers finally venturing into the first eleven on a regular basis. Almunia at Arsenal has …
“See I was supposed to be a footballer but they kept pickin’ the other kid who was a foot taller I got lazy and less enthusiastic I stopped trainin’ …
The stage is FC Barcelona’s famous Camp Nou stadium. The scoreline? 1-0, although you’d be forgiven for thinking that no-one cared. The reason for this lack of interest? One …
Back with the fourth installment of his series on exciting young English managers in the Football League, Hugo Steckelmacher looks at Scunthorpe United’s Nigel Adkins, a man hard to …
“If the FA Cup final is football’s Ascot, then the League Cup final is its Derby Day.” — Alan Hardaker Now that the euphoria over my beloved Spurs’ Carling …
“You give your life to football and then it often forgets you. Football clubs have a bad habit of taking players in, making the most of them, and then …
The subject of slavery is one that rouses reactions verging from the understandably passionate to the frankly irrational. I can recall with a pang of melancholy the furore issuing …
Rather than structure this week’s review chronologically, as is the custom, I would like first to invite you readers to participate in the interactive part of our service by …
In Hugo Steckelmacher’s third of his profiles on great English managing prospects in the Football League, he looks at the playing and managerial career of ex-Newcastle and Portsmouth faithful …
