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Dive into the world of football with our collection of columns from Jonathan Liew and Hunter Davies, as well as longer-read features from guest writers.
A fan’s loyalty is unwavering – unlike the players they support
Life is about endless upheavals, but some – like Harry Kane in lederhosen – are hard to take.
By The Lionesses won’t sleep tonight
Even with the Prem to distract me, I am still anxious about how the England women’s team are coping.
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Nike needs to sell Mary Earps’s shirt
Underinvestment in women’s sporting gear extends to football boots designed for men being accused of causing ACL injuries.
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What the Lionesses taught us
How fitting, how healing, if it had been women who ended English football’s 57 years of hurt.
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What Lee Anderson forgets about Brian Clough
The Tory MP keeps betraying his Labour roots.
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Why doesn’t football love Keir Starmer?
Talking about the game only makes the Labour leader and politicians look dumb.
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The Rest is Football should be sent off
Gary Lineker’s new podcast offers a stale standard of analysis that barely hovers above that offered by the drunkest bar-propper…
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How I fell for women’s football
It was banned by the FA for 50 years, but the football my team plays has opened up a more…
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Lindi Ngwenya: “Women football agents are as cut-throat as the men”
The trailblazing agent is dedicated to nurturing talent from across the world – and supporting her rising stars in the…
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How Dele Alli exposed the trauma that accompanies success in elite sport
We are increasingly discovering the mental cost of the pressure the sports industry places on its stars.
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How sport explains Thatcher’s Britain
The commerce, scandal and violence of sport in the 1980s was a reflection of a ruthlessly individualist society.
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Dear England and the English Question
In his new play about Gareth Southgate, James Graham uses football to explore a contested national identity.
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James Graham’s Dear England is a tiresome ode to St Gareth Southgate
The National Theatre production presents the manager’s path to national saviour but fails to add anything of note to our…
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David Baddiel: “I am not ashamed to be a heterosexual male”
The comedian on becoming a public intellectual, and wanting to be more than “the voice for Britain’s Jews”.
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Guardiola’s idealism is evaporating amid Man City’s dogged pursuit of victory
The manager’s legacy in the world of football is unrivalled but, one by one, the aspects that made him easy…
By It’s been a dramatic season, but its high point is still to come: Carlisle vs Stockport at Wembley
Man City’s Ederson kicks off the long-awaited, much coveted 27th annual The Fan Awards…
By In football even the lowliest clubs have their time in the sun, however brief
In August 1974, Carlisle United were top of the First Division. Fans still reminisce over when their lads stuffed one…
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Whether sodden bomb or swerving orb, the football has always been a dangerous item
This is a world where “concussion sports law” is already a discipline and a trade.
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Mesut Özil was a stylist who lost his way in the new era of measurement and numbers
The 34-year-old football player’s retirement feels both premature and long overdue.
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