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With the strike of a gavel, football changed forever. The European Court Of Justice had just ruled that any footballer could now move freely at the end of a contract, and clubs could no longer hoard players and control their freedom of movement. How football would change, and what this meant for...

Delaunay's dream A World Football Timeline Henri Delaunay, who lived from 13th of June 1883 to November 9th 1955, is a relatively forgotten figure in the World of Football. And Perhaps for a good reason. He was a player, and later a referee, but not a manager. However, Henri was also a part of...

Greetings dear readers, speculators and fellow football fans. As of writing this introduction, I am still in the process of working on the 2002 World Cup knockout stage in my Brotherhood and Unity timeline, but lately I have been thinking of introducing a thread that gives anyone who reads this...

The first official competition for European football (soccer) teams was played in 1960, with four participating teams. This format remained unchanged for 20 years until the 1980 Euros, where twice as many nations played. This lasted for 12 additional years, but from 1996 onward, 16 and later 24...

Hello to any Soccer fans on this board. A while ago, i did a Soccer/Rugby TL called The Gentleman's game as a collaboration with alternatehistory.com user @Neoteros. While i did have a lot of fun writing this TL, i've gotten a bit too ambitious with it, talking and changing many things about...

Okay, let's say Russia somehow stays more stable after the fall of the Soviet Union and doesn't become a dictatorship, doesn't make threatening moves on its neighbors, and eventually applies for membership of the EU and gets it. What happens next? How does this impact Russia? How does it impact...

Something that has got me thinking while doing my ATL football topic is of a different kind of Euro '92. As we all know, Sweden '92 would be the last tournament that would have 8 teams before it would be expanded to 16 teams for England '96, but what if it was to happen four years earlier for...

When it comes to international football tournaments, it is no secret that Scotland hold a terrible and unwanted record of failing to get out of the group stage and becoming something of a joke. But back at Euro 96 for just 16 minutes, with a little help from England, Scotland came close to...

What would have been the ramifications had OPEC starting 1974 accepted currencies aside from US dollar like Deutsche mark/Euro, Japanese yen, British pound, Swiss franc, and Chinese yuan as a mode of paying crude oil?

This is very much a modern version of the "Permanent Butskellism" counterfactual in the Nick Hancock/Chris England book based around Gordon Banks playing in the 1970 quarter-final, as opposed to the much bleaker, Powellian version that many will be familiar with. As in that case, there are a...