Money has changed the shape of football in ways that become clearer when the biggest contracts are placed side by side. Cristiano Ronaldo can earn more in Saudi Arabia than…
Bargain signings in Premier League history tend to follow a familiar pattern: a club takes a gamble on a player nobody else really wanted, and a few years later that…
Football occasionally behaves like it has a sense of humour. August 8, 2015, was one of those days. Bournemouth walked out at Dean Court to play their first-ever Premier League…
Bankrupt footballers keep showing up in headlines because the gap between what these men earned and what they ended up with feels almost impossible to explain, and yet the pattern…
The plan to rebuild youth soccer is no longer a conversation for another World Cup cycle, because the federation is now trying to reshape how American children discover, play, develop,…
Twenty managers will stand in Premier League technical areas this season, and eight of them have never done it for their current club before a ball has even been kicked.…
Vinicius Jr and Arsenal have become one of the defining transfer storylines of the summer, and the longer this saga drags into August, the more it looks like a deal…
Some football clubs are built with money. Others are built with history. Borussia Mönchengladbach belongs firmly in the second group. On this day in 1900, Borussia Mönchengladbach was officially founded.…
FIFA spent decades lecturing the football world about protecting the integrity of the game, and now Gianni Infantino wants to sell a piece of the World Cup to private equity…
If July 30 had an official sponsor, it would be World Cup drama. On this day in 1966, England did the unthinkable: they actually won a major trophy. They beat…