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[ad_1] This is an updated version of an article first published on March 8. It is two and a half years since Mark Clattenburg had his...
[ad_1] “It sounds stupid, but it was as if the stadium went quiet at that exact moment,” recalls former Manchester United defender David May. “All you...
[ad_1] It was one of the more unexpected social media posts of the Premier League season. It came from Burnley and showed a visitor to the...
[ad_1] Accrington 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...
[ad_1] It seems unlikely that north London denizen TS Eliot was an Arsenal fan, but his poetry suggests otherwise. “April is the cruellest month,” begins The...
[ad_1] The celebration was almost as glorious as the goal itself. The fuzz of chest hair, the twirling shirt, the body swerve to evade the Manchester...
[ad_1] The Premier League remains a European outlier this season. Everywhere you look around the continent, title races have become virtual processions. Paris Saint-Germain are 10...
[ad_1] An important thing to remember about Andre Villas-Boas is that he had ridiculously good hair. You don’t spend a record-shattering €15 million (£12.9; $16.3m) fee...
[ad_1] Football arguably doesn’t need anything extra to feed its collective sense of self-importance, but the idea that it can cause new life to be created...
[ad_1] Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend’s football. This was the...
[ad_1] More than 40 members of Ukraine’s national-team party were spread around the centre circle of Wroclaw’s Tarczynski Arena. Players, coaches and backroom staff locked their...
[ad_1] In the first of our series about the men who want to buy English football clubs, this is the remarkable story of Chris Kirchner, who...
[ad_1] This is the first article in a six-part series looking at some of European football’s most innovative up-and-coming managers. Thiago Motta knows a thing or...
[ad_1] He appeared in the dock at Manchester Crown Court like a familiar-looking stranger, a vivid memory from a distant past. Jamie Cassidy had once been...
[ad_1] Nottingham Forest have been handed a four-point deduction following a breach of the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSRs). Forest were referred to an...
[ad_1] This is an updated version of an article first published in June 2020. Perhaps the best place to start is the story Harry Redknapp tells...
[ad_1] The best striker in the Premier League versus the best defender in the Premier League in a one-on-one showdown with millions of people watching across...
[ad_1] Picture the scene: a team has been awarded a goal kick. The goalkeeper throws the ball to one of two central defenders standing nearby in...
[ad_1] Not all losses are created equal — and no defeat in football is worse than a banter one. “In extra time, it’s been Klopp’s kids...
[ad_1] Dani Alves, who was this morning sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Spain after being found guilty of sexual assault, was,...