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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
Ask any Brazilian who has the biggest torcida and you will hear two names: Flamengo and Corinthians. The surveys back that up, but the percentages you see online vary quite a bit depending on who ran the poll and how...
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Zheng Yen · October 11, 2026
In April 2024, a CAF Confederation Cup semi-final between RS Berkane and USM Alger was cancelled twice in the space of eight days. The reason was not injuries or bad weather. Algerian customs had seized the Moroccan club’s shirts because...
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Zheng Yen · October 2, 2026
Every Soweto Derby carries a strange irony. Kaizer Chiefs, one of the two biggest clubs in South African football, exists only because its founder once played for Orlando Pirates and walked away from it. That single break in 1970 created...
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Zheng Yen · September 25, 2026
On 29 March 2022 in Abuja, Nigeria needed a win to reach the World Cup. Thomas Partey shot from outside the box in the 10th minute and it slipped through goalkeeper Francis Uzoho’s hands, and Ghana’s away goal did the...
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Zheng Yen · September 25, 2026
Alpha Onyango’s 83rd-minute goal on 26 April 2026 was the only one at Nyayo National Stadium, and it was enough to send Gor Mahia six points clear at the top of the Kenyan league. The crowd was reported to be...
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Zheng Yen · September 3, 2026
On 2 February 2007, a Sicilian derby between Catania and Palermo ended with police officer Filippo Raciti dead outside the stadium, killed by blunt trauma during clashes with Catania fans. Italian football was suspended for about a week, and Catania...
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Zheng Yen · September 2, 2026
In 2011, psychologist Mina Cikara and colleagues at Princeton University put Red Sox and Yankees fans in an MRI scanner and showed them baseball highlights. When a fan’s rival team failed, a reward region of the brain called the ventral...
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Zheng Yen · September 2, 2026
On 30 November 1872, at a cricket ground called Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow, England and Scotland played out a goalless draw in front of 4,000 spectators who had each paid a shilling to get in. It was the first official...
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Zheng Yen · September 1, 2026
England led Argentina 1-0 deep into the second half of their World Cup semi-final in July 2026, courtesy of an Anthony Gordon strike, and looked to be heading for a first World Cup final since 1966. Then Enzo Fernandez equalised...
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Zheng Yen · September 1, 2026
Ask a Scouser, a Cairo cab driver, and a Buenos Aires season-ticket holder which football rivalry is the fiercest, and you will get three completely different answers, each defended like a court case. There is no single agreed metric for...
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