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The summer window has three weeks left before it shuts on the first of September and most of the business still to come will involve players moving down a level of importance rather than up. Nahuel Molina, the 28-year-old Argentina right-back, completed a permanent move from AtlĂ©tico Madrid to Roma on the 12th of August, […]
Republic of Ireland supporters have spent the better part of forty years turning up in enormous numbers and singing, whatever the result of the football match they were there for. It’s fair to say that 2026 handed them a helping of both extremes. Under Heimir HallgrĂmsson, the Icelander who was given the manager’s role, the […]
The Green and White Army are one of international football’s great travelling parties and for a good while now they have been praised for it as much as for anything the team has done on the pitch. Northern Ireland spent the spring of 2026 coming to terms with another near miss, beaten by Italy in […]
Wales supporters have spent a decade being told they are the best thing about Welsh football, which is simultaneously a nice compliment and an awkward one. The Red Wall grew out of the qualifying campaign for Euro 2016 and has since followed the team to France, Baku, Rome, Qatar and, last summer, to Switzerland, where […]
The transfer window is heading towards its slightly delirious final stretch, the point in August where deals nobody predicted in June suddenly look inevitable. 34-year-old Mohamed Salah, Egypt’s record goalscorer and the third-highest scorer in Liverpool’s history, completed his medical in Turkey on Wednesday ahead of a two-year contract at Trabzonspor. The money answers most […]
Lincoln City, Cardiff City and Bolton Wanderers all secured their place in this season’s Championship after contrasting routes out of League One, and each arrives with a very different story behind their promotion. Between a record-breaking title win, an immediate bounce back and a dramatic play-off run, the three clubs represent almost every way a […]
The German transfer window has reached its pre-season phase, which means the business getting done is the sort that clubs would rather frame as a coup than a compromise. Schalke 04, newly promoted and light up front, spent Monday confirming that Edin DĹľeko, the 40-year-old Bosnia and Herzegovina striker who captained his country at this […]
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 around Manu KonĂ©, the 25-year-old Roma and France midfielder whose reputation went up a couple of notches during Les Bleus’ run […]
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 Imps landed back in the second tier of English football for the first time in 65 years. […]
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 into the hundreds of miles. That geography has shaped the support more than any manager ever could. The Green Army travel in […]
Brazil’s World Cup 2026 journey ended at the last-16 stage, as the Selecao suffered a 2-1 defeat against Norway, with Erling Haaland bagging a brace against Carlo Ancelotti’s team. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Erling Braut Haaland (@erling) Some have stated that one of the main reasons for their […]
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 influence on his team’s victory was such that it will forever be synonymous with a player considered one of the greatest ever. Watching Norway’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 routine. Long before the referee blows the first whistle, and hours after the final one, fans are locked into […]
Cardiff City are one of those clubs whose identity has never really been contained by their league position. The Bluebirds have spent chunks of the last twenty years bouncing between the Premier League, the Championship and, more recently, the third tier, and yet their support has kept doing very much what it always did. A […]
England face Mexico in the round of 16 at 1am on Monday 6 July, live on BBC One, in what promises to be one of the most anticipated knockout matches of the 2026 World Cup. Interest in placing a bet on Mexico vs England has been building steadily since the draw was confirmed, but behind […]
The FIFA World Cup has always been a stage where emerging stars are transformed into household names. While established superstars often dominate headlines before the tournament begins, history consistently shows that every World Cup introduces a new generation of players ready to capture global attention. As the football world watches the biggest international football tournament […]
The Tartan Army are routinely talked about as the gold standard for travelling supporters and most years they live up to the billing. Following Scotland’s 4-2 win over Denmark in the November of 2025, that finally booked a place at the 2026 World Cup after 28 years out of the senior international wilderness, the songbook […]
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 have etched their names into the record books. With Spain top goal scorer odds building ahead of the 2026 tournament, here is a look at the […]
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 patriotic standard, part novelty pop record, part beery terrace tune and part stuff the Football Association would dearly love […]
If both sides progress through the round of 32 and the round of 16, the Netherlands and Germany could potentially meet in the quarter-finals of this World Cup. Should that scenario arise, it would revive one of international football’s most intense rivalries. It would also bring back memories of the 1974 World Cup final in […]
