Maher Mezahi joins Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller for this week’s episode of Greatest Games to look back on the chaotic World Cup qualifying play-off between north African rivals Algeria and Egypt in 2009. The match was the third of the year between the two sides played on neutral grounds in Omdurman, Sudan. The rivalry […]
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Groups A & B – Jonathan Wilson’s Guide to Afcon 2019
The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations is upon us, so we had a chat with our editor, Jonathan Wilson, about every nation involved this year. Starting with Group A, the group of the hosts, are we right to expect Egypt to top this group? Egypt are massive favourites. They’re the most successful team in Cup […]
Groups C & D – Jonathan Wilson’s Guide to Afcon 2019
Is there a potential threat to Egypt in Group C? If anybody is going to upset Egypt, Senegal probably have the best chance. Aliou Cissé has been in charge since 2015 – there seems to be a general movement in Africa to give coaches more time and I think that there are a lot of […]
Island Games
This is an extract from World In Motion: The Inside Story of Italia ’90 by Simon Hart and published by deCoubertin. You can win a copy of the book by entering our competition here. Island games Part 2 – Republic of Ireland The rain came down in Cagliari. Occasionally, so too did the ball. It […]
Building The Dream, James Corbett
The following article first appeared in Issue 16, released in March 2016. As the political wrangling continues over Qatar’s World Cup, what’s the reality on the ground? At the edge of an empty man-made lagoon near to the shore of the Arabian Gulf, I count skyscrapers looming from the dust. The road, lined on one […]
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The Lost Kingdom
The Hakeem al-Araibi affair has confirmed the end of the unifying dream of Bahraini football