The Truth Behind UNC Football's Dark Confederate Past

The gun looks puny compared to today’s mounted weaponry. But the 10 men of the Wilmington Light Infantry posed around it with jaunty pride. Without it, they would have been a makeshift contingent of civilians manning an ad hoc paramilitary unit. Even their gun wagon was repurposed, a dray from the Wilmington Transfer Company. This […]

Mourinho v Wenger: Why the rivalry never died between football's elite bosses

Mourinho v Wenger That was Mourinho’s claim to myself and a small group of journalists lucky enough to share two absorbing hours of his time in a stifling room in Jakarta in the middle of the first pre-season tour of Mourinho’s return to Chelsea in 2013. “I have had a chance to meet him much, […]