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Well, folks - who had seven matches in the First Manager To Get Sacked This Season Sweepstake? Before the season...

The FIFA World Cup is a glorious celebration of world football, bringing together players and fans from every corner of...

Oh, Thomas. You didn’t really think you could try the exact same approach four times in a row and Peppy...

Going to the pub, Sunday roasts, and drinking tea are just some of Britain's traditions. Perhaps the most important one...

This is the story of Aston Villa’s league title season 1980-81. We have now reached December 1980, where Villa were...

Football woke up to some sad news on Sunday morning following the death of Jimmy Greaves, the former footballer-turned-broadcaster. As...

This article was originally published by Jack Wills on Tale of Two Halves In late 2005 Togo sealed qualification for...

For the football obsessed amongst us, reading books on the beautiful game is a great way to get our fix...

This is the story of Aston Villa's incredible run to the league title in 1980-81. The previous decade had seen...

As managers up and down the country waited to see whether they could pick their non-Argentinian South American players, there...

When the stadiums shut last March, football was allowed to pause for once. The time away from the pitch and...

Bob Wilson is a true footballing legend as a goalkeeper, a coach, and a tv sports presenter. His playing career...

Well, as we always say at this point in the season, there’s nothing like an international break to kill a...

Welcome to the next instalment of our ‘Falls from Grace’ series where we take a look back at the rapid...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

Kosovo. Yugoslavia. Milošević. Exotic, intriguing, but ultimately historic clash of titans, a very recent conflict that eventually led to the...

You lot should be grateful this week, you really should. The newspaper that publishes this rubbish every week asked me...

If you ask any little girl or boy who their favourite player is, it will usually be a striker. These...

The late seventies and early eighties are most memorable for fantastic music, questionable outfits and Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister....

With the Premier League being the most competitive league to play in for players across the world, it is hardly...

And in a flash, it has gone - the second week of Premier League action disappears as quickly as it...

As a result of a process that started somewhere during the mid-to-late 80s, the European game is the top of...

The European cup Winners’ Cup, which ran from 1960 to 1999, has been associated with some pretty glamorous names over...

On the rather plain Qatar Sports Investment (QSI) website, there is not much to see for the scale of the...

Well, would you look at that - a new Premier League season. Not a lot has changed, really - Mo...

In the modern age, when football from across the globe can be streamed straight into our eyeballs with ever greater...

With the new season underway in the Football League, and with the Premier League starting on Friday, we asked some...

About to begin life in the Premier League, boasting a squad bristling with talent and housed in a brand-new stadium,...

To be fair, I was tempted to ‘do a Harry Kane’ and not show up today but then I realised...

Football clubs around the world have different histories and roots. Some of them were founded by students, some by the...

Over the years, many teams have been defined by their footballing style, with catchy monikers acting as useful bookmarks to...

In this life You're on your own And if the elevator tries to bring you down Go crazy (“Let’s Go...

Ordinarily, football goes in cycles and no one club dominates indefinitely; even supposed dynasties such as Liverpool in the 1970s...

Can you smell it, folks? That’s the sweet scent of the Premier League season closing in and money being burned...

Written by Jim Keoghan, author of 'How to Run a Football Club: The Story of Our National Game', and 'Punk...

This is the story of an international football match causing an international incident, which had ramifications for many years after....

“Some of these trips we made last a week, it was a holiday. It was different. Different places, different food,...

Right then, folks - get comfortable because we have a lot to get through today. All the rumour-creators are back...

Last time out we opened our series on ‘Falls from Grace” with a look at possibly the Granddaddy of them...

El Maracanazo 1989 refers to an incident when Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas attempted to cheat Brazil out of a place...

A week without actual football has now passed us by because, as ever, we do not count preseason friendlies as...

February 2011 and Ian Holloway brings his Blackpool side to the home of Bristol City. Holloway is pretty much Mr...

“The door opened from the cockpit and a bottle of vodka rolled down the aisle.” If crossing the Iron Curtain...

Well, there goes England’s 100% record in major finals on home turf then. The Euro 2020 adventure is over -...

One can only wonder at the pride a certain Mr and Mrs Charlton must have felt on 30th July 1966...

There's a party goin' on right here A celebration to last throughout the years So bring your good times and...

Some things in football, as in life, are deemed worse than others. For example, Alan Shearer, amongst others, contends there...

Unless you were lucky enough or old enough to be around when the English football team last won something (1966,...

The modern game sees the sands shifting more regularly than ever before and such are its inconsistencies and vagaries that...

Yugoslavia was once a proud footballing nation, a side nicknamed the Brazilians of Europe which appeared in 8 World Cups...