I have been working on a project the looks at football history in eras and regions. Each post will cover a region (e.g. Latin Europe) over a...
At different points I have had interest in trying to rank the greatest players ever, but when any real effort is put forth it seems an impossible...
A number of different posters have played around with the idea of teams of the decade with overlapping decades: 2010-2020, 2005-2015, 200-2010......
To Start off here are all of the results 1869-70 23 Man Shortlist Alcock, Charles ENG (Wanderers) Baker, Alfred ENG (Wanderers/No Names) Bowen,...
Opening the new thread for information gathering while the other wraps up. Timeline is roughly August to August, I will go over it on more detail...
I wanted to start the thread for the next season. This first thing I want to do is make is clear what the timeline is for this season and what...
New thread for the next season. Royal Engineers finally win the FA Cup this season. This is also the last international before Scotland really...
Wanted to get the next thread up for you guys although I have not had time to do some baseline research/reviewing yet.
This thread covers the 1872-73 football season. The FA Cup this season is again won by Wanderers who defeated Oxford University in the Finals....
https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/bigsoccers-players-of-the-season-discussion-thread.2097013/ This thread will cover the 1966-67 season for Europe...
This season a possible starting point for what could be considered a "season" in soccer history, although you could go back a few more years....
I am starting this thread to kick of a community project to try to create lists of the best 23 players of the season world wide. This could then...
First lets all get past the greatness of this thread title... Now: Arguments about the Golden Ball or best player of the world cup almost always...
The goal of this thread is simple, to define a system where a player’s position and function...
After the interesting effort from @victorcalello38 I have decided to make a run at historical teams of the season. Two of the major things I want...
This era begins around 1903 and ends at te outbreak of WWI interrupting British Football at the end of the 1914/15 season. One of the main...
British Golden Age From the mid 1880s to the early 1900s many observers of the time considered this a golden age of British football. Some...
Early Football This period is looked at from roughly 1870 to the early/mid 1880s. On the international level it includes the representative...
There have been a number of threads recently diving into the best players or teams of the decade or other predefined measure of time. This type of...
What are some major competition finals, one game winner take all, that were well played competitive games. So many finals gravitate towards cagey...
What type of importance was this competition given when it existed? I thought it was a nothing competition, until I realized Ruben Paz was SAPOTY...
I thought it would be interesting to go back and attempt to assemble inclusive world wide 23 man Balon d'Or short lists and 3 finalists for every...
Going through great Brazilian players got me thinking about great players who missed out on possibly becoming becoming all time legends because...
Talking about the strength of different eras for the Serie A got me wondering about the rate of major foreign talent coming into the league. The...
When you try to compile an all time team for a country there is always contention on how players should be selected: achievements for the national...