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Barney Ronay

Blood on the streets: the charge of the hooligans at Euro 2016

Young, fit, muscular men with masks, gumshields and telescopic truncheons, the Russian “elite ultras” attacked not just with drunken gusto but with well-honed, premeditated viciousness.

By Barney Ronay

Blood on the streets: the charge of the hooligans at Euro 2016

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How Arsène Wenger turned from football’s great moderniser into its stick-in-the-mud

Part of the fascination of Wenger’s Arsenal is the way an institution can come to resemble a dominant person,…

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What thrilling doomsday scenario will English football come up with next?

The rumoured meeting between the Big Five clubs risks creating an unfair Premiere League.

By Barney Ronay

Exit one smooth bald Swiss career administrator at Fifa – and enter another

After a day of glazed electioneering, Gianni Infantino has been elected. Arguably, this does count as progress.

By Barney Ronay

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