Football Quiz: Soccer Legends

Yaya Touré For a certain generation of Blues, there is a clear, undeniable dividing line in our modern history: before Yaya, and after Yaya. When Yaya Touré, the ultimate Manchester City legend, arrived from Barcelona in the summer of 2010 for a fee of around £24 million, the footballing world scoffed. Rival fans and pundits claimed he was merely a defensive holding player and that we had paid far too much. But those critics didn’t know what was about to hit them. We all reme

Vincent Kompany Let’s be honest with ourselves for a second. How many times did we sit in the stands, or in front of the television in the pub, holding our breath when he went down? Every Blue knows that familiar, sinking feeling. The sudden grimace, the reluctant reach for the calf, the slow, agonizing walk down the tunnel. But here is the thing about Vincent Kompany, the ultimate Manchester City legend: he always, always came back. It is easy to recount the pure silverware

Do you remember the whispers back in 2015? When Manchester City broke the bank to bring a certain strawberry-blonde Belgian back to English shores, the rival pundits were quick to laugh. They remembered the young lad who managed a mere three Premier League appearances for Chelsea before being deemed surplus to requirements and shipped off to Germany. But they didn't know what was coming. When Kevin De Bruyne, now an undisputed Manchester City legend, walked through the doors

There is a specific kind of electricity that runs through a stadium when a player who truly loves the game gets on the ball. When we think of Ian Wright, we don't just think of the goals—though there were a staggering 185 of them in the red and white. We think of the gold tooth, the blinding smile, and the sheer, unadulterated passion of a man who looked like he had won a competition to play for the club he adored. Every Gooner who stood on the Highbury terraces in the 90s re