EXPECTATION can be like an anvil on the back of a footballer. It has always been the case, no matter how sizeable the ...

ASK any fan from the north and they will tell you the real passion in the game is found in cities like Liverpool, Manchester ...

CLIMATE change is a great hoax, apparently – words from the head of the most influential country on the planet. When someone ...

IT IS barely two years since the Friedkin group took over at Everton, but they seem to have had enough – the word on the ...

THE REPUTATIONS of the Premier League, Manchester City, English football, the Football Association and arguably every club in the entire structure are at stake. The image of the modern game, with its ...

WHEN Leicester City won the Premier League in 2016, it was something of a modern fairy-tale. The club was not what anyone would have classified as small, but Leicester were not accustomed to ...

APPARENTLY there’s a lack of forwards right across professional and semi-professional football. Should we be that surprised given most teams continue to play with one out-and-out striker? Who would ...

WORLD Cups are full of conspiracy theories, but the third edition of the competition, held in France in 1938, was played against a backdrop of international tension, gathering clouds of war and the ...

PORTO won the three-horse race with Sporting and Benfica to clinch their first Primeira Liga title since 2022. Since that win, they have had some problems to deal with, but they turned a corner with ...

FOR most of the 2025-26 season, Spurs were shambolic and looked like a demotivated team lacking the vigour to avoid relegation. Remarkably, a late change in management, not the first of the campaign, ...

AS a man that wore his heart on his sleeve, Kevin Keegan would have appreciated the outpouring of grief about his passing on July 20, 2026. Whether you were a Liverpool fan or not, Keegan was the sort ...

THE teams contesting the FA Cup final this season are headliners in many ways and they may have two of the best recent records in the competition, but there’s something of an anti-climax about the ...