The football week has settled into its post-World Cup rhythm, which means all of the big transfer stories are the ones that haven’t quite happened yet. Chief amongst them is the tug-of-war building up ...

Lincoln City spent the summer of 2026 getting used to a new view. After running away with the League One title on 103 points, unbeaten across a 29-game stretch and a full 12 clear of Cardiff City, the ...

Plymouth Argyle are, by some distance, the most awkwardly placed club in English league football, marooned down on the Devon and Cornwall border with a round trip to almost anywhere that runs deep ...

In the 1986 World Cup, a diminutive figure named Diego Maradona led his national team, Argentina, to only their second-ever title in the competition. While football is a team sport, Maradona’s ...

Let’s be honest: being a football fan isn’t just about watching a 90-minute match and turning off the telly anymore. For most of us, the actual game is just the anchor for a massive, day-long digital ...

Spain’s journey from perennial underachievers to world champions has been one of the great stories in international football, and along the way a succession of outstanding forwards and midfielders ...

Supporting the national team is a slightly peculiar pursuit at the best of times. England fans turn up in numbers that few other countries can match and they bring with them a songbook that is part ...

Sheffield Wednesday have been around long enough to have a songbook the size of a small church hymn book. Founded in 1867, the Owls are regularly billed as the third-oldest professional football club ...

It is probably fair to say that Blackburn Rovers isn’t the club that it once was. There was a time when the Rovers were Premier League champions, the pride of Lancashire, bankrolled by the late Jack ...

After what has been an exciting campaign in this season’s elite European club competition, we’re down to just four clubs, with holders PSG set to play Bayern Munich, while Arsenal are set to face ...

The reality of London clubs is that they are always more likely to pick up supporters than those based outside of the capital, simply on account of the fact that they are easy to discover and more ...

Sheffield is one of those cities, like Liverpool, Manchester and others, that has two teams that have extremely loyal followers. The fact that there is a local rival based so nearby also means that ...