The Premier League season is two days old and the transfer window discourse has already been turned completely upside down by a twenty four year old from Mali who …

The transfer window is still open. I want to be clear about that before we start because some of the assessments I am about to make will look either …

There are football stories where the right approach is to find the emotion, to connect the reader to the human experience of being a supporter, to write with the …

There is a photograph that tells you everything about the Class of 92 before you know a single fact about any of them. Six young men in Manchester United …

There is a specific kind of footballer who makes the game look like it was designed for them and them alone. A player whose relationship with the ball is …

I was a kid when the Invincibles happened. Old enough to understand what was going on but young enough that the full weight of the achievement only settled on …

English football before 1992 and English football after 1992 are two different sports played in the same country by the same people under the same rules. The stadiums are …

Diego Maradona is the only footballer in history who cheated and scored the greatest goal ever played within four minutes of each other and somehow both moments made you …

September 1996. A tall, thin, bespectacled Frenchman walked into Highbury to take charge of Arsenal Football Club and the reaction from English football was one of the most spectacularly …

Before the crash there was the team. I want to start there because the story of Munich is so overwhelming, so heavy with grief and consequence, that it can …