Early 2008. The club that are now officially the richest in the world were managed by Sam Allardyce, their biggest signing the previous summer being Joey Barton. The previous richest club, and the ...

Exploring whether VAR has helped or hindered football, its impact on decision-making, and how sports betting has been impacted.

Liverpool's horrendous run of form is serious cause for concern, with a tricky run of games ahead of them in November.

An enticing concept has been quietly incubating within English football in recent years: supporter ownership of clubs. While it may be the norm in places such as Germany and Argentina for football ...

Former Championship manager Neil Warnock stated: There’s no other league in the world where the bottom club can beat the top club on a regular basis. Warnock continued – “In most leagues now, you ...

Up next in the World Famous Player Comparison series is a slightly controversial one. England defenders and definitely not best friends, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry. Two of the best defenders in ...

The parameters for declaring a nationality when playing English football are being a UK resident, having English parents, or having English grandparents. It is so broad that it often gives the players ...

Considered a poor cousin to its West German neighbour, with few of its clubs experiencing major success on the international scene, the 52-year history of the East German Oberliga nevertheless yielded ...

The 1982 World Cup saw the introduction on the world stage of Diego Maradona. David Elkin looks at his first World Cup and the Argentine’s defining run-in with one Claudio Gentile. World Cups are made ...

Many believe that this rise in hooliganism has all stemmed from the events at the Euro 2020 Final at Wembley stadium. Despite a reduced stadium capacity (due to Covid-19 restrictions) more than the ...

During the first three seasons that I’ve covered so far, there were a few developments that were bubbling under the surface, all to spill out in the summer of 1992. The first, and I did touch on it ...

With qualifiers for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup set to begin next year, Jamaica will be aiming to reach the tournament for a third consecutive time, having made history with appearances in both ...