His team were drawing 1-1 at the time. It was late in the game, under the floodlights, when they missed a chance to take the lead. And that…
Read more ‘It was 10 seconds of stupidity’: Inside the education course for football’s banned fansAccrington Stanley owner Andy Holt’s tweet was dripping with Lancastrian sarcasm. “Congratulations Ryan, I honestly don’t know how you do it! Fabulous achievement. Best of luck with the…
Read more Wrexham are a good story, yes, but they are no footballing fairytaleIn the first of our series about the men who want to buy English football clubs, this is the remarkable story of Chris Kirchner, who came close to…
Read more The men who want to buy football clubs: Chris Kirchner, the $25m fraudsterPeter Storrie can remember visiting the London studio of Herzog & de Meuron, the renowned Swiss architects, and being shown a striking vision of Portsmouth’s future. “It was…
Read more The football stadiums that never wereOne of the most eye-catching bios on X, or Twitter as we all know it, belonged to a sports writer with one of the UK’s biggest national newspapers.…
Read more Are we entering a 'golden age' of the football conspiracy theory?Last week, every footballer in England and Wales received an email warning them about a painkiller that, until now, they might never have realised could put them at…
Read more Why football fears tramadol: ‘It’s an evil drug – it nearly killed me’Just after clocking off time at the edge of Liverpool’s business district on Wednesday afternoon, a small but striking man with a tattoo stretching across his neck joined…
Read more Rickie Lambert, conspiracy theories – and why footballers are vulnerable
