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

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

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

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

FOOTBALL is a sport built around nostalgia. We remember our heroes, draw comparisons between the past and today and don the rose-tinted glasses of experience to complain about contemporary trends and ...

Title day at Anfield – Lawrenson’s header sets Liverpool on their way to another title on May 15, 1982. Photo: PA AFTER FINISHING fifth in 1980-81, Liverpool – despite being crowned European champions ...

NOTTS COUNTY were one of the founder members of the Football League but success has eluded them at the top level. Here’s four of their most interesting teams. 1891-1994: FA Cup winners and almost the ...

WHEN the Football League was formed in 1888, there were already hundreds of clubs in existence across Great Britain. The game had been adopted by thousands of people from many walks of life: schools, ...

NOTTINGHAM FOREST were surprise champions in 1978, becoming the first team since Ipswich Town in 1961-62 to win the title directly after promotion from the second division. Forest were as ...

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 ...

IN an age when former Football League clubs proliferate the top division of non-league, it is often forgotten that the first non-league team to perform the hallowed “double” of National League and FA ...

SINCE JUNE 21 1970, football fans have been longing for Brazil to gift the world the spirit of samba, the ball-juggling artistry that encapsulated jogo bonita, the romantic, natural brilliance that ...