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 fairytalePeter 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
