Italia ’90: 10 iconic No.10 World Cup stories
How Italia ’90 played out for its ten most iconic star playmakers
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England’s Flawed Fantasista Heroes
England do produce creatives – it’s how they’ve been treated that’s the problem. Football is a release in which the daily mundanities of life…
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Showdown: When Roma’s Prince faced Lazio’s Clown Prince
On the 29 November 1992, the Rome derby bore witness to a super-hyped Number 10 showdown, as Giuseppe Giannini and Paul Gascoigne went head…
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Merseyside’s young playmaking duo offer England World Cup hope
After years of blinded eternal optimism, the England football team enter this week’s World Cup under a cloud of supressed expectation. Most people believe…
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Which playmakers made The Guardian’s World Cup Top 100?
The Guardian have announced the World Cup’s top 100 footballers of all-time, carefully chosen by their assembled panel of experts – and it’s no…
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Top 5 foreign fantasisti from ’90s Serie A
The fantasisti stranieri
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Is Wayne Rooney That Rare Breed of Playmaker?
Playmaker, English fantasista, or just a plain old striker?
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