By Urban Newton (@urban_newton) I don’t look like many footballers. But apparently I do look like Nacho Monreal, the left-back who left Arsenal this Summer to go back to Spain at the age of thirty-three. The only nickname that has ever stuck is “Urbs”, but even that’s not exactly a nickname. It must have been …
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Neymar’s Paris renaissance
Jeered roundly as he celebrated one of the great goals of his career, a match-winning goal against Strasbourg on his return to the Parc Des Princes, but how has the Brazilian icon fallen to such a stage? Upon arrival, the Brazilian superstar signalled the crowning moment Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Qatari Sports Investments had long desired. …
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