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Kevin Keegan. 1951-2026. The People’s Footballer.

July 20, 2026 History
Kevin Keegan. 1951-2026. The People’s Footballer.
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 …
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Spain Did Not Just Win the World Cup. They Produced the Most Complete Tournament Performance in Football History.

July 20, 2026 Opinions
Spain Did Not Just Win the World Cup. They Produced the Most Complete Tournament Performance in Football 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 …
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Football Is Scanning Every Player’s Body for the World Cup. Here Is Whether It Actually Fixes Anything.

June 20, 2026 Opinions
Football Is Scanning Every Player’s Body for the World Cup. Here Is Whether It Actually Fixes Anything.
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 …
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Financial Fair Play Promised to Save Football. Instead It Created a Mess Nobody Knows How to Fix.

June 10, 2026 Opinions
Financial Fair Play Promised to Save Football. Instead It Created a Mess Nobody Knows How to Fix.
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 …
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The Factory Worker, the Ankle Tag and the Premier League Title. The Impossible Story of Jamie Vardy.

June 9, 2026 History
The Factory Worker, the Ankle Tag and the Premier League Title. The Impossible Story of Jamie Vardy.
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 …
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From Champions of Europe to League One. The Rise and Fall of Leeds United.

June 9, 2026 History
From Champions of Europe to League One. The Rise and Fall of Leeds United.
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 …
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From Wimbledon to MK Dons. The Day Football Forgot What It Was For.

June 8, 2026 History
From Wimbledon to MK Dons. The Day Football Forgot What It Was For.
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 …
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Football Has Lost Its Villains. And the Game Is Desperately Worse For It.

June 8, 2026 Opinions
Football Has Lost Its Villains. And the Game Is Desperately Worse For It.
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. …
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The Greatest Upset in Sporting History. And Nothing Will Ever Come Close.

June 8, 2026 History
The Greatest Upset in Sporting History. And Nothing Will Ever Come Close.
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 …
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Seven Rules, One World Cup and a Few Things Gianni Infantino Probably Should Have Left Alone.

June 7, 2026 Opinions
Seven Rules, One World Cup and a Few Things Gianni Infantino Probably Should Have Left Alone.
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 …
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