Alfredo di Stefano

• Futility of friendly matches that used to matter very much

  November 13, 2012

  Roy Hodgson’s late choice of Crystal Palace’s greatly gifted attacker Wilfried Zaha seemed on the face of it a strange even a bizarre one.

• Messi still has some way to go before he can be considered the greatest

  March 13, 2012

  Lionel Messi is a brilliant player, but the greatest of all time? Brian Glanville for one, remains unconvinced.

• Colombia once had a claim to be the best league in the world

  February 11, 2012

  For a brief period in the 1950s Colombia was able to lure the world's best players.