Somewhere in the build up to the 2026 World Cup, every one of the 1,248 players selected in the forty eight squad lists walked into a scanning chamber during …
When UEFA introduced Financial Fair Play regulations in 2011, the promise was straightforward and on the surface genuinely compelling. Football had a spending problem. Clubs were accumulating debt at …
In the summer of 2011 a twenty four year old man was playing non-league football for Stocksbridge Park Steels in the eighth tier of English football while working shifts …
There is a specific type of football tragedy that goes beyond a bad season or a poor run of results. The kind that unfolds over years, that involves decisions …
There are moments in football that make you angry in a way that goes beyond a bad result or a poor refereeing decision. A deeper anger. The kind that …
There is a specific kind of player that football used to produce with reliable regularity and that has almost entirely disappeared from the modern game. You know the type. …
I want to tell you about a conversation I had with my dad sometime around December 2015. We were talking about the Premier League title race, the way we …
In four days the biggest World Cup in football history kicks off in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Forty eight teams. Three countries. A hundred and four matches …
There are decisions in football that make you shake your head. Decisions that frustrate you, that seem wrong or poorly thought through, that you disagree with but can at …
Let me tell you exactly where England are five days before their opening World Cup game against Croatia in Dallas. The manager has left out two of the most …
