🔥 Top football never stops: these matches will brighten up your holidays
Christmas with the family is getting completely out of hand again and after what feels like eight kilos…
Football through the generations, part 2: From the Dark Ages to a new world of money, pressure and scrutiny
Over the course of this year, The Athletic has met up with seven footballers born across a period…
🗓️ There’s still football to come, catch the top matches to end the year
The 2025 Brazilian football season has officially ended this Sunday (21), with Corinthians winning the Copa do Brasil.…
Is Erling Haaland the greatest goalscorer in English football history?
Erling Haaland is undoubtedly one of English football’s greatest goalscorers, with his feats and achievements since joining Manchester…
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.…