Player Focus: New Faces Provide Reason for Cheer Despite Brazil's Managerial Farce
by Jack Lang
at Wednesday, Aug 20 2014 16:13
Some clever bloke with a hip, east-London beard once said that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. Events echo through the ages. The cosmos writes its own punchlines.You don’t imagine that the corrupt old boys of Brazil’s football federation have much time for Marxist...
Player Focus: The Challenge of Replacing Ronaldinho
by Jack Lang
at Friday, Aug 1 2014 12:07
He left as he arrived: with misdirection and mystery. Whispers of discontent. A request to play at the testimonial of Deco in Portugal. A missed flight. A few days off the radar.For Ronaldinho, it was ever thus. Football's great travelling entertainer has always mixed one part frustration and two pa...