Jeff Weston discusses the plight of Fleetwood Town, now a selling club struggling to keep its head above water in League Two.

After almost a century of existence, by the mid 1980s and into the early 1990s, football was in crisis. After the golden post-war era of the 1950s and 60s, the game started to enter a decline in the ...

An enticing concept has been quietly incubating within English football in recent years: supporter ownership of clubs. While it may be the norm in places such as Germany and Argentina for football ...

Despite a 2-1 defeat at Ternana with a game to go in the 2016/17 season, the Serie B title was SPAL’s if Benevento could beat promotion rivals Frosinone. Fabio Ceravolo struck late for Benevento, and ...

When PSV Eindhoven secured the treble of Dutch League, Dutch Cup and European Cup in May 1988, it was typical of a brief period of unprecedented egalitarianism in the European game. As surprising as ...

2025 brings us another new chapter in the footballing universe: the birth of the new FIFA Club World Cup. The Club World Cup has been a staple of the footballing calendar since 2000 (or 1960 if you ...

The 1982 World Cup saw the introduction on the world stage of Diego Maradona. David Elkin looks at his first World Cup and the Argentine’s defining run-in with one Claudio Gentile. World Cups are made ...

Sunday, December 21 represented a new low in the tumultuous history of Gateshead FC. The turnout for their National League fixture against Eastleigh was 431. Fewer than 400 of them were home fans. The ...

Up next in the World Famous Player Comparison series is a slightly controversial one. England defenders and definitely not best friends, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry. Two of the best defenders in ...

The parameters for declaring a nationality when playing English football are being a UK resident, having English parents, or having English grandparents. It is so broad that it often gives the players ...

A debate that is not about to die any time soon is that of Arsenal goalkeepers. The Gunners have two top goalkeepers, who happen to have similar traits, despite the manager signing one as an upgrade ...

Perhaps co-incidentally, or maybe as part of a compromise for this to happen, another change to the criteria saw the runners up of the best ranked nations also competing in the second qualifying round ...