Football
New Man, Different Player: Wily Old Fox Jamie Vardy Is Leading Leicester's Charge
33 years old.  The age at which Liverpool legend and former Ballon d’Or winner Kevin Keegan retired. France’s [ ... ]
New Order Needed To Change West Ham’s Blue Mondays
A scintillating gameweek of Premier League football will end with Arsenal travelling five miles across London to Stratford [ ... ]
Chess Champion Checkmates Fantasy Football As He Closes In On Top Spot
The world’s best chess player is also a managerial mastermind and could be set to become a champion fantasy football [ ... ]
43 Goals In 56 Games, Have Brazil Finally Found Their New Ronaldo?
Brazil’s obsession with finding an heir to Ronaldo is still to be satisfied. Perhaps the greatest striker in the history [ ... ]
The Last Old Firm Of The Decade Will Be One For The Ages
It’s one of the fiercest rivalries in world football, but of late it has been a decidedly one-sided contest. The conflict [ ... ]
Ask The Fans: Bruce Has The Toon Up And Running But Is It Benitez's Blueprint?
When Steve Bruce was named as Newcastle manager this summer the criticism and scepticism poured in from fans around the [ ... ]
Lend It Like Beckham! The Premier League Loanees Lighting Up The Championship
It is one of English football's quirky bits of trivia... For which team did David Beckham make his league debut? The [ ... ]
Leicester Under Rodgers Score More And Concede Less Than Claudio's Champions
Leicester won the Premier League title against all the odds in one of the most epic seasons. It had to be seen to be believed. [ ... ]
Prodigal Talent Of The German Game Is Turning RB Leipzig Into The Model Club
What were you doing at the age of 28? If it wasn’t managing a Bundesliga football club, you’ve got nothing on [ ... ]
The Liverpool Trade-Offs Paying Off For Bournemouth
In the current political landscape, all the talk seems to be about trade deals. So let’s talk about one that has been [ ... ]
Bale And Real Madrid Are A Failed Marriage - It's Time To Call The Lawyers
Noah the cat, Football, Alex the husband. That’s how my favourite things in life list reads, hell, on some days it [ ... ]
How The Manchester Derby Defined The Decade
September 20th, 2009. Not only the day that Bryan Cranston picked up his first Emmy but also the day Michael Owen slid the [ ... ]
FPL Gameweek 16: How Long Can You Ignore This English Duo?
Another round of FPL is careering our way and with almost non-stop football ready to fill up our festive stocking it is [ ... ]
Ask The Fans: Fernandinho Makes City Tick But Can He Do It From Defence?
It’s fair to say this season hasn’t gone exactly to plan for Manchester City. With the defence depleted so soon [ ... ]
Book Review - Above Head Height: A Five-A-Side Life
This book sprang from a newspaper article that former magazine editor James Brown wrote on the occasion of the death of [ ... ]
La Liga Targets Global Domination In Its Arms Race With The Premier League
Miami, it was decided, would host the first-ever La Liga fixture to be played on foreign soil. The January fixture between [ ... ]
The Big Interview James Milner: ''It Would Be Amazing To Play For Leeds Again.''
There was a time when those who didn’t know too much about football chose to illustrate their ignorance loudly on [ ... ]
Forget The Prem! A Move To Spain Is What Jadon Sancho Needs Right Now
Jadon Sancho is a once in a generation English footballing talent, destined for world superstardom the moment he got [ ... ]
233 Games, 585 Goals And Red Cards Galore - It's The Merseyside Derby
“I never saw such a crowd. As early as one o’clock all streets, for miles around, leading to Goodison Park began [ ... ]
Mourinho Didn't Fit The Mould But He'll Still Get A Great Reception At Man Utd
Modern football fans are largely a fickle bunch. They’re loyal enough, but only for as long as you’re wearing [ ... ]
Why Aberdeen Can Be The Team To Close The 33 Year Gap On Celtic And Rangers
They still talk about the days of Sir Alex Ferguson at Pittodrie. And with good reason. Before his name had even been uttered [ ... ]
Instant Highlights And Stadium FX, The Big Wins From Amazon's Debut
The Premier League has finally landed in the future. Football’s new internet era began on Tuesday as Amazon Prime’s [ ... ]
One City, Two Emotions: Emile Heskey Admits Passion & Hate Dominate On Derby Day
“You can see the hate,” says Emile Heskey with a smile as he recounts the experience of derby day on Merseyside. [ ... ]
Mané To Heap More Misery On Everton To The Delight Of FPL Players Everywhere
If you are like 80 per cent of FPL players (and ourselves), this midweek round of fixtures has almost certainly snuck [ ... ]
Fylde FA Cup Giant-Killer Mark Yeates Sets His Sights On Slaying Sheffield United
AFC Fylde winger Mark Yeates knows a thing or two about FA Cup giant-killings, having been part of the Bradford City [ ... ]
Sri Lanka Loves Trent Alexander-Arnold: We Break Down The Ballon d'Or Votes
We can surely all agree that Lionel Messi, Virgil van Dijk and Cristiano Ronaldo deserved to be the top three stars [ ... ]
Exclusive: ''I Felt Lost In A Strange Place,'' Heskey On His Liverpool Struggles
To the outside world, Emile Heskey had the world at his feet. But inwardly, as Liverpool’s new £11million record [ ... ]
''An Enemy Of The Ball'' - Meet 'The Kaiser', Football's Greatest Ever Conman
“Pinocchio had nothing on him,” says 1994 World Cup winner Ricardo Rocha. “Worse than a fibber, that guy [ ... ]
Footballer, Writer, Genius: The Brains Behind The Ballon d'Or
Gabriel Hanot is one of the most influential men in football history. Not only was the European Cup his brainchild, but [ ... ]
Why Max Allegri Can Be The Man To Break The Culture Of Mediocrity At Arsenal
Ears around European football pricked up as soon as Max Allegri’s departure as Juventus manager was announced at the [ ... ]
It's Coming Home? Britain And Ireland Launch Joint 2030 World Cup Bid
Football could finally be coming home - sort of! Britain and Ireland are set to stage a joint bid to host the World Cup [ ... ]
Emile Heskey Exclusive: ''France Had The Real Golden Generation, Not England''
Emile Heskey has told The Sportsman that England’s ‘Golden Generation’ of which he was a key part was [ ... ]