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From Sunday League and sausage and chips, to Champions League and iconic kits, we celebrate the game and the things around it that make people happy.
We think this issue is perfect for you because you love football in the same way we do… so here’s a little look at some of the things you’ll find inside Issue 27.
Getty Images1Adel Taarabt stealing souls
The idea that the streets, or anyone, could ever forget Adel Taarabt is to do him a disservice. Nobody will ever forget Adel Taarabt, and especially not the QPR fans who saw him play for the club over 150 times between 2008 and 2015.
As fan and writer James Wright says: “My abiding memory is that he used to make me sit back and laugh. He did things on the pitch with such a level of precociousness, of such an imperial footballing arrogance that I could only find exasperated laughter. He was ridiculous”.
You’ll find Adel on the left-wing in our MUNDIAL All-Stars team.
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Get MUNDIAL delivered to your doorSign up nowAdvertisementAmin Musa courtesy of Classic Football Shirts2The best Ajax shirt of all time
Ajax might be the cradle of Total Football, the home of Johan Cruyff, a talent machine that just keeps on producing players for the top shelf… but it’s also the club that could lay claim to having the best football shirts ever.
For the MUNDIAL All Stars Third Kit, we’ve chosen this Umbro away shirt from their 1989-90 team, the shirt that started the run of funky Umbro graphic shirts that defined the Bergkamp era.
A Classic Football Shirts Hall of Famer. A design masterpiece. About as grail as it gets.
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3The maddest chants from around the world
A bit like the website for song lyrics you don’t understand, we’ve gone from the sprawling cities of South America to quaint English towns to explore the ways that thousands of people in football stadiums sing insulting things together to offend opposition fans.
So, from the Scottish singing “DEEP FRY YER PIZZAS, WE’RE GONNA DEEP FRY YER PIZZAAAAS” to Southend fans singing “SOUTHEND PIER IS LONGER THAN YOURS” to other towns with piers, we’ve broken down some of the best terrace chants in the world.
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4Going for a drink with Zidane, Messi & Co
Don’t know about you, but we spend quite a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to go for a drink with some of our favourite footballers of all time. To turn that into more of a reality, we’ve written about doing that with every winner of the Ballon d’Ors, in a piece called . Get it?
Sparkling water and with Zidane, a night in the casino with R9, and waking up on a beach after capirinhas with Rivaldo.
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