Author: Scott Liebenberg
There are footballers who win trophies. There are footballers who win awards. There are footballers who accumulate statistics that survive long after the memories of the matches that produced …
MetLife Stadium. East Rutherford, New Jersey. July 19, 2026. Over eighty thousand people watching inside the ground and billions more watching around the world as Ferran Torres collected the …
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 …
