The year in football: swooning over Grealish, full-bodied clichés and the demise of Bielsa’s bucket
Plus as the stadiums stood silent, lots of well-loved commentary clichés have kept us amusingly distracted.
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How Jürgen Klopp became the Mersey messiah
Thanks to his good humour and hard work, football fans fell in love with the not-so-cool but incredibly dedicated guy…
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Why Scotland qualifying for Euro 2021 matters to the SNP
At this moment, the country’s sporting success feels more relevant to its politics than at any point in recent history.
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Hype, injury, excess… players can waste their potential for many reasons. Is niceness one of them?
We like our players to have inner steel, perhaps that's why Theo Walcott ended up on Everton's subs bench.
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Lewis Hamilton is a record-breaking champion – so why is he still so widely disliked?
Hamilton upends so many of the expectations we place on our sporting heroes: that they remain uncomplicated, diffident, bound by…
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The rise and resolve of Arsène Wenger
How football's auteur transformed the English game.
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I thought my football treasures would ease me into old age. But now I am tired of the clutter
It's time for my collection to go to the auction house, and I can finally experience the thrill of the sell.
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English football is at war with itself: its foundations are unstable and its future is uncertain
Covid-19 has accelerated football’s problems, but the widening financial inequalities and the absence of accountability or transparency pre-dated the pandemic.
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