Football

This week marks fifty years since Arsenal won the league-and-cup double. There is a lot to learn from that season...

By any football club’s standards, 2020 was a catastrophic year. Pandemic-driven shortfalls caused by the absence of fans has left...

What is the measure of a life? Is it tangible successes or achievements, personal or professional? Is it quality or...

Dennis Bergkamp is my favourite footballer (or organism) of all time. From watching the calm, measured way he played, to...

On the 16th of July, 1950, a great crowd surged into a seatless, concrete grandstand in Rio to watch a...

The word ‘myth’ comes from the Greek ‘mythos’ which has a range of meanings—word, saying, story, fiction—and is defined as...

Illicit Activities, Champagne Football, and a Three-Way Title Race – let us convince you that Serie A is the place...

Football touches on every aspect of life, which means you can put a book about the game in most sections...

The word “passion” has become a bit of a joke. It’s the kind of superficial thing you throw into a...

I’m holding these old boots in my hands. Nike Tiempos. Leather. White with lime green highlights. Top-of-the-range boots that cost...

The Trinidad and Tobago football team of the late 1980s, nicknamed the Strike Squad, was but a single point away...

In football, Europe has cultivated an international export in a way that no other continent or nation has been able...

First came Joe Cole. Then there was Wayne Rooney. Then Jack Wilshire. Soon after, Ravel Morrison. Next Ross Barley. Most...

This is a weird one. In a lot of ways, fans from my generation are not qualified to talk about...

This year has been defined, naturally, by the coronavirus pandemic sweeping our globe. The same can be said of football....

As the sun set over Soligorsk in early August, it looked as if Shaktar Soligorsk vs. Dinamo Brest was heading...

Ballet, Bites, Brazil The year was 2014 and the FIFA World Cup in Brazil had already worked its magic and...

The 1-6 scoreline was flattering to Manchester United. It is rare to feel any relief after such a defeat, but...

There is no place for the Dialectical Method in football. The rabidly tribal football fanatic will, however, engage lustily in...