Welcome to football’s age of lawfare – bitter, belligerent and eyewateringly expensive
You might walk past the International Dispute Resolution Centre (IDRC) in central London a hundred times without noticing…
Is this the football you want?
Xabi Alonso has never forgotten his introduction to the Premier League. It was a Sunday afternoon in late…
Why are NFL franchises more valuable than football clubs? – The BookKeeper’s mailbag
The transfer window is closed for a few months but the fun never stops when it comes to…
Is Arsenal’s grind impressive? Should three teams be worried? Who does Guardiola want to leave? – The Briefing
Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season, The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest…
Why are football’s player unions so powerless compared with U.S. sports?
FIFA president Gianni Infantino spent much of the summer strolling around the U.S. at the Club World Cup,…
‘How we paid for AT&T Stadium’ – Surprise $1.35bn link between Jerry Jones, Yankees and Bills
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones ranked second in CNBC’s list of the world’s most valuable sports empires. Los…
Club World Cup is not a glorious new era for football, whatever Gianni Infantino tries to tell us
Gianni Infantino has no doubt about it. This Club World Cup, the FIFA president says, represents a “new…
The complete history of Oasis and football
The two most fabled decades in English popular culture are, almost without question, the 1960s and the 1990s.…
Pep Guardiola and the age of football amnesia
When Keanu Reeves was doing press for Bill & Ted Face the Music in 2020, he had to…
‘Man City chiefs will be furious as sanctions revealed’
(Credit: Hasan Karim, Breaking Media) Tue 24 June 2025 9:28, UK Manchester City chiefs will be “pulling their…
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 news LIVE: Zubimendi in England to complete Arsenal move, Wirtz taking Liverpool medical, Messi leads Miami to history
Who to go for? Arsenal legend David O’Leary insists Arsenal must sign a striker in the summer but…