Category: Opinions
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 …
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. …
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 …
I want to tell you about a moment that happened to me personally this season that perfectly captures everything wrong with the offside rule in modern football. Crystal Palace …
I have covered football for a long time. I have seen clubs do desperate things in desperate moments. I have watched managers throw colleagues under the bus in press …
I want you to picture a scene that every football fan in the country will recognise instantly. The ball strikes an arm in the penalty area. Play stops. Everyone …
In November 2024, Coventry City were sitting in 17th place in the Championship. Their manager had been in the job for less than a month. The football was not …
