Football managers are not known for listening to their bodies. The job is relentless, the hours are long, and the pressure never really switches off. For most, health is …
Every footballer leaves a trail. A youth club, a loan spell nobody remembers, the big move, the late-career wind-down. All you get is the list of clubs and the …
Winning a title is hard. Going an entire season without losing is something only a handful of teams ever manage. Going more than two years without losing a league …
Retirement is the one opponent every footballer loses to in the end. For most, the question is not whether it comes, but what on earth they do with themselves …
You will have seen it a hundred times. A player jogs over to a team-mate during a break in play, puts a hand over his mouth and says something …
Managers say a lot of things in press conferences that they probably wish they had not. Most of the time, nobody remembers. Occasionally, the man in the other dugout …
Automatic promotion, the play-offs or a relegation scrap? Put your scores in for every remaining Championship fixture and watch the table update as you go. Play out the rest …
Scoring from the halfway line is one of those things most footballers never do. Plenty try it, usually when the goalkeeper has wandered off his line, and almost all …
Every great dressing room has a story about the day someone stood up to the manager. Most of them end badly for the player. A few become legends because …
The penalty is the most studied moment in football. Goalkeepers have analysts, laptops and water bottles covered in notes telling them which way a taker likes to go. Takers …
