“It was 5.30am and the sun was already rising by the time the last of Manchester City’s jubilant supporters made it back from the Ataturk Olympic Stadium to the beating heart of Istanbul. This vibrant, enthralling, gloriously chaotic city at the crossroads of the world, where Asia meets Europe in the waters of the Bosphorus, was waking to a new dawn. … Empires rise and empires fall. Istanbul — Byzantium in the days of the Greek empire, Constantinople to the Romans — is the perfect illustration of that. …”
The Athletic
Football: More confusing than ever
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“Nike gloves. Vapors. Socks pulled above the knee. It’s a look ingrained in millennial culture by Thierry Henry, circa 2003-04, whose on-pitch style personified ‘va va voom.’ You knew you were in trouble if you were faced with an opponent sporting this triple threat. Until then, football socks were very much rolled once at the knee, but Henry’s stylistic tweak gave license for players at all levels of the game to pull them as high as possible. …”
Scissors Kick 