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Making the game beautiful: Football's comedy gold starring Monty Python, Alan Partridge and Smithy
Ben Gilbert's series on the cultural roots of football draws to a close by looking at the TV shows that have sent the sport up.
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Making the game beautiful: Who are football's true cult icons?
Ben Gilbert raises a broken glass to the wayward stars, anti-heroes and flawed geniuses that have graced the sport since the 60s.
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Making the game beautiful: Football's greatest ever own goals
This week we present the evidence that proves there's nothing better than a player comically belting the ball into his own net.
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Making the game beautiful: How social media is changing football and creating cult heroes like Bayo Akinfenwa
We investigate social media's impact on the sport and wonder if Paul Pogba would ever pin ears onto Jose Mourninho's head during a press conference.
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The 2018 Premier League Predictor (Part Two): Club-by-club guide, transfers, grades & predictions
With the Premier League season now more than halfway through and the 2018 transfer market coming to a close, what happens next?
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The 2018 Premier League Predictor (Part One): Club-by-club guide, transfers, grades & predictions
With the Premier League season more than halfway complete and the 2018 transfer market coming to a close, what happens next?
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Is Tottenham striker Harry Kane better than Newcastle and England legend Alan Shearer?
After Harry Kane broke former Newcastle legend Shearer's Premier League record, we crunch the numbers on the two goal machines.
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Making the game beautiful: The football film Oscars
As award season rolls into town, we take a look at 10 memorable movies when the sport went widescreen.
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Making the game beautiful: When Mourinho, Ronaldo, Sir Alex and stray dogs attack
Ben Gilbert unearths the interviews from TV hell to find out what happens when you ask football’s finest a really stupid question.
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Making the game beautiful: Swastikas at White Hart Lane and other footballing tales of the unexpected
Hitler, Trump, FIFA, Forest Green Rovers and Maradona are the stars in our retelling of improbable sporting stories.
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Making the game beautiful: Football’s songs of praise, despair, death and devotion
We're on the terraces of every Premier League team singing along to the chants that define a club’s culture and personality.
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Making the game beautiful: Footballers from another planet, starring Sissoko, Hutton and Yakubu
Ben Gilbert is in the Cathedral of Nightmares watching How Did He Miss That FC struggle to string one pass together.
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Making the game beautiful: The greatest golazos non-league football has ever seen
This week we venture to half-empty stadiums across the country to find the best goals scored in the lower leagues.
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Is playing FIFA bad for your health?
Video game publishers Electronic Arts are facing a consumer backlash against their flagship football title and its most controversial mode.
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Making the game beautiful: The music of Match of the Day, Italia 90 and Emmanuel Adebayor’s Spotify playlist
This week we listen to the sounds of soccer and wonder if Glenn Hoddle will one day be punished for his crimes against the charts.
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Making the game beautiful: Clichés, corridors of uncertainty and the language of football
Ben Gilbert opens up the sport’s unique dictionary to see if there’s a “hatful of chances” inside Mario Balotelli’s amazing headgear.
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Making the game beautiful: Football Manager, Sensible Soccer, FIFA and the virtual reality of David Luiz
We chart the sport’s evolution on computers and consoles and wonder if football is now imitating video games, just as an ancient philosophiser once predicted.
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Making the game beautiful: Football skills that defy science
Ben Gilbert goes goggle-eyed at the football flicks, tricks, feints and skills that defy science and the limits of our imagination.
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Making the game beautiful: From Total Football to total shambles
This week we look at the evolution of tactics, investigating formations, the press and the ghost of Geoff Thomas.
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Making the game beautiful: Inside the mind of football’s madmen
Ben Gilbert examines the skills and sanity of the sport’s greatest coaches, from Clough to Cruyff and Michels to Mourinho.