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THE LEGEND OF R9 WILL LIVE FOREVER

THE LEGEND OF R9 WILL LIVE FOREVER

In April 2008, a man was reported to the Rio de Janeiro police for threatening three prostitutes. So the story goes, he solicited them in one of the city’s less salubrious areas, took them back to a motel and, after discovering that they were, in fact, pre-op trans sex

GHEORGHE HAGI MOVED MOUNTAINS AT GALATASARAY

GHEORGHE HAGI MOVED MOUNTAINS AT GALATASARAY

In 1996, a 31-year-old man known as the Maradona of the Carpathians was brought to Istanbul for a final dance at the disco; five years later, he left having changed everything…

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GHEORGHE HAGI MOVED MOUNTAINS AT GALATASARAY

GHEORGHE HAGI MOVED MOUNTAINS AT GALATASARAY

In 1996, a 31-year-old man known as the Maradona of the Carpathians was brought to Istanbul for a final dance at the disco; five years later, he left having changed everything…


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STEVE BULL ON BOBBY ROBSON, WOLVES, AND PLAYING AGAINST MICK MCCARTHY

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If you found yourself within spitting distance of The Molineux on any given Saturday of the 1988/89 Third Division season, you'd have heard that headline roared to the heavens. Five bellowed syllables followed by the same tune banged out on the grand old stadium's decaying


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GHEORGHE HAGI MOVED MOUNTAINS AT GALATASARAY

GHEORGHE HAGI MOVED MOUNTAINS AT GALATASARAY

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