The $25m fraudster who came so close to buying an English football club

In the first of our series about the men who want to buy English football clubs,…

Taliban Afghanistan public execution Football Stadium Ghazni

The Taliban government in Afghanistan publicly executed two men convicted of murder in a football stadium…

Man on a mission: NFL great Alan Page’s quest for justice in football and beyond

MINNEAPOLIS — A few times each month, Alan Page visits Justice Page Middle School, one of…

Football to trial blue cards for 10-minute sin bins

A new ‘blue card’ will be introduced as part of the 10-minute sin bin trials in…

How a sweeper set football free: Rudraneil Sengupta on Franz Beckenbauer

The death of German football legend Franz Beckenbauer aka Der Kaiser last week, aged 78, brought…

Blingy, binky and beside the point: How football mouth guards became fashion statements

During the third quarter of a holiday weekend game, television cameras fixed on Pittsburgh Steelers wide…

Georgia took the Orange Bowl seriously, but it was embarrassing for college football

MIAMI — This was a debacle, and Kirby Smart knew it. He was the one who…

The football stadiums that never were

Peter Storrie can remember visiting the London studio of Herzog & de Meuron, the renowned Swiss…

First World War Christmas truce: How much football was actually played?

It’s one of the best-known stories about the First World War: the Christmas truce of 1914,…

Football conspiracy theories: Are we in a ‘golden age’ of fan paranoia?

One of the most eye-catching bios on X, or Twitter as we all know it, belonged…