Category: Opinions
The confetti has settled at MetLife Stadium. Spain have their trophy. Ferran Torres has his moment. Rodri has his Golden Ball. The football was extraordinary and the tournament, taken …
I wrote about this months ago when Gianni Infantino first announced that the World Cup final would feature a halftime show for the first time in the tournament’s history. …
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 …
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 …
