Somewhere in England right now there is a nineteen year old who has spent the last decade at one of the country’s biggest football clubs. He has been there …

Last year I found myself in Chicago with a couple of days to spare and the kind of spontaneous energy that only comes from being in a city you …

I want to tell you about the moment I realised something had fundamentally changed about the way football’s governing bodies think about the people who love this game. It …

There is a version of football Saturday that older fans carry around with them like a photograph they cannot quite bring themselves to throw away. You know the one. …

Close your eyes and think about the great centre forwards of the last thirty years. Thierry Henry gliding through defences with that low, predatory run. Ronaldo, the original one, …

Ask any football fan over the age of thirty five whether today’s players are as good as the ones they grew up watching and you will get one of …

Gianni Infantino has done a lot of things during his tenure as FIFA president that have raised eyebrows. He has expanded the World Cup to 48 teams. He has …

There is a specific kind of maths that football fans do without even thinking about it anymore. You want to go to an away game. You check the ticket …

There is a moment that every football fan knows intimately. Your striker latches onto a through ball, rounds the keeper, slots it into the net. The ground erupts. You …

I want to tell you something about Selhurst Park that you only really understand if you grew up near it. It is not the biggest ground. It is not …