There is a familiar sound to any World Cup summer: the thump of a ball struck cleanly, the roar that...
Heat experts urge FIFA to rethink bottle restrictions as fears over player welfare grow.
Football’s push to tidy up its technical areas and reduce pitch-side clutter is running into a familiar opponent: the laws...
PFA Player of the Year shortlist: Rice, Raya and Gabriel represent Arsenal with Fernandes.
The end of the Premier League campaign always brings a second competition: the one for individual honours, where narratives harden...
World Cup referees told to stop ‘keeper timeout’ touchline meetings.
Football has never been short on gamesmanship, but the modern version can feel less like dark arts and more like...
IFAB’s World Cup rule shakeup targets time-wasting, touchline theatrics, and VAR blind spots.
Football has spent the last decade adding technology and tweaking interpretations, yet the sport’s oldest frustration has barely budged: matches...
The End of an Era: James Milner Leaves the Premier League With the Appearance Record.
Some careers flare brightly and vanish, and then some careers simply refuse to quit. James Milner’s did the latter, stretching...
Mateta Strikes as Crystal Palace Clinch Conference League Crown Against Rayo.
Crystal Palace’s long climb from Premier League survivors to continental winners ended under the bright lights of Leipzig, where patience,...
Tottenham Investigate Injury Causes Including Retractable Stadium Pitch.
Tottenham Hotspur have spent plenty of recent months trying to solve problems on the pitch. Now, they are turning their...
Messi’s hamstring scare sends a ripple through World Cup plans.
The World Cup is close enough now that every sprint, every awkward landing, and every early substitution feels louder than...
Real Madrid confirm Dani Carvajal exit: the end of a captain’s era at the Bernabeu
There are departures that feel like simple roster management, and then there are exits that register as a shift in...