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 ...

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 ...

PARAGUAY isn’t exactly a footballing backwater – it is set to be one of the many 2030 World Cup venues, after all – but it is ...

THERE were some encouraging signs on the first day of the new season, with Brighton and Newcastle United fans providing a noisy backdrop to their first games in the Premier League after winning ...

FOR MOST people, the Basque region of Spain is represented by Athletic Club Bilbao, the club that insists on employing players born in that part of the country. This may have cost them countless ...

IN the late summer of 1968, Russian troops rolled into Czechoslovakia in response to the so-called “Prague Spring” that took place between January and August of that year. The Cold War was raging and ...

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 ...

WINNING TWO consecutive World Cups has only been achieved once, by the brilliant Brazil team that lifted the trophy in 1958 and 1962. But when England travelled to Mexico for the 1970 World Cup, there ...

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 ...