In recognition of his breakthrough year and the performances he put in he was also named on the shortlist for the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Young Player of the Year award alongside the ...

Now each of these points challenges the very essence of football, and implies that much of the time we are being lied to. Lied to, for example, in terms of which players a club is going to sign, and ...

The ruling seems to mean that players will always have the option to buy themselves out of their contract, rather than being trapped with a club. That in turn would open the door to the club wanting ...

And yet last summer’s figures show quite clearly that much of thetime spending money on players is more likely to take a club down the league than lift it up. And for that minority of clubs which are ...

Slowly little bits of the media are awakening to the fact that the World Cup final is going to be played on July 19, the absolute height of the American summer, at the New Jersey MetLife Stadium.

The lack of journalistic coverage of football in England however means there is every chance that those clubs that have been guilty of the abuse of young players, either by allowing staff to abuse ...

But Manchester City being fined £2m for delayed re-starts and then being fined £1m for doing exactly the same thing again the following season seems rather pointless for two reasons. One is they won’t ...

For many football fans across the world who closely follow the top domestic leagues, Arsenal’s dynamic duo, William Saliba ...

Obviously research in this area is hindered by the fact that researchers cannot go around asking under 16 year olds if they have been abused, so instead research focuses on those aged over 18 who ...

Indeed the historic list of free transfers executed by letting it be known in the media that Real Madrid will sign them, if only they will let their contract run down, is quite impressive, as the ...