Forget the football – this is why the Club World Cup really matters
FIFA gave its 32 competing teams a billion reasons to take a revamped Club World Cup seriously when…
Football’s capacity to make men cry: ‘I was buying milk and just burst into tears thinking about Palace’
Forget the scoreline in the top corner of the screen. The image of the distraught Inter Milan supporter…
How the Club World Cup could stretch football’s elite – including Lionel Messi – to breaking point
Even Lionel Messi will not have known a fortnight quite like it. The man commonly hailed as the…
Lamine Yamal – What people who know football say about Barcelona’s teenage star
Asked about Lamine Yamal in the aftermath of the teenager’s scintillating display against Inter, his Barcelona coach Hansi…