Switzerland Women’s Euros 2025: Are We Actively Progressing?
Women’s football is being catapulted into wider exposure, greater demands, and higher levels of investment in a once male-dominated industry. With the back-end success of the Women’s Euros in 2022 and the…
Manchester United: Like a Rolling Dice
In football, a single game is often too brief a sample of events to draw definitive conclusions from. Even the most formidable teams have their off days, appearing as mere spectators while…
Portuguesa and the Venezuelan Ultra Turned Kidnapper
In 1963, with Real Madrid, FC Porto, and Sao Paulo in Caracas to play in the Pequeña Copa del Mundo, two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alfredo Di Stefano was kidnapped. After being held…
Why a Documentary About the Liverpool “Spice Boys” is a Good Idea
A regular feature of the YouTube show “Stick to Football” is the preamble before the official recording starts. Here’s a brief excerpt of the 15th February edition of the show involving Gary…
The Boehly-Roman Empire: What the New Chelsea Regime Is Missing
I know what you’re thinking: that pun is just taking it too far. You’re right. It is. But there’s more at play here than a contrived attempt at punnery, and with these…
Arsenal 1-1 Porto (4-2 pens): This Is Where We Want to Be
Just under two weeks ago, I was once again staring intently at a mute glowing rectangle, this time cradled in my palm, later propped up against a pillow, instead of its more…
Football’s Shuffle Between Skin and Silhouette
“I like going down to a nice little local pub,” Leah Williamson, fitted in Acne Studios and Gucci loafers, says. “I can’t say where or people will know it.” In another video,…
When Caracas Fans Made it Rain at the Clasico
When Deportivo Tachira arrived in the capital of Caracas at the start of March, they were on an unprecedented unbeaten run in Venezuelan football. Stretching back nearly a year, Eduardo Sarago’s men…
The Richarlison Remontada
It’s no secret that Richarlison struggled at the beginning of his Spurs career. He needed help and sought therapy, struggling through injuries, and didn’t have a regular position under Antonio Conte. However,…
Martin Ødegaard and Arsenal: A Perfect Fit
Tony Adams was just before my time. The man nicknamed Mr. Arsenal, who captained the club for 14 years, retired the summer I started watching football, having just led the team to…
How the Korean Public Failed Lee Kang-in
I don’t have enough words to express how disgusted I am at the way South Korea crashed out of the 2023 Asian Cup. But there have been enough articles on the web…
Atletico Diritti: A Unique Football Revolution
The Beginning It is one of the most romantic and picturesque settings you can imagine for a football pitch. In the shadow of an ancient Roman aqueduct in the suburbs of Rome…
Injury, Identity, and the Paradox of Women’s Football
In women’s football, there is an irreversible sense of lost time. How do we make up for it? How do we do that as soon as possible? How do we protect the…
Dear Liverpool FC: A Love Letter to the Reds
Football is just a leisure activity, but one we all love and one I cannot imagine my life without (though it certainly sometimes ruins our whole weekend). We shape our lives in…
Pape Matar Sarr – A Key Piece to the Spurs Puzzle
You wouldn’t think when the young midfielder sat on the bench for the majority of last season, that he would start every game he was available in this season. The young Senegalese…
The story of Sunday Mba, Nigeria’s unexpected hero at the 2013 Nations Cup
Football has a knack for producing the unlikely, whether in the form of a modest nation’s fairytale rise or a football club achieving greatness against all odds—like Greece at the 2004 Euros…
Jürgen Klopp Made Us Walk Together
There are some days you just don’t forget. Your first day of university, your first date, the day you buy your first car. Everything about that day is clear, down to the…
Uncle Sam Has Moved Into Town – Football and the USA
Although the age-old trope of Americans not understanding European football still persists to this day, it would be churlish to deny their expertise in monetising their native sports. The National Football League,…
Why AFCON and the Asian Cup Matter
The World Cup comes around every four years. For a greedy international football fan like me, that’s four years too long. I can somewhat satisfy those cravings through continental tournaments like the…
Balancing the Cultural Tightrope – A Battle We Underrate
In a world that is becoming more globalized, we’re seeing an increase in players with dual passports. Germany’s most elite team, Bayern Munich, currently has twelve players in their first team that…
Hearts of Oak FC: A Jewel of African Football
Adorning the southern coast of the Gulf of Guinea is Ghana’s bustling, metropolitan capital: Accra. Home to over 2.5 million, of which 56% are under the age of 24, Accra is becoming…
On the feel and functionality of Cole Palmer
A lot of changes have occurred at Chelsea Football Club over the past eighteen months. Ownership has changed. Coaches have been fired and hired more than once. The change of ownership has…
The Canadian Premier League: Building Momentum
The history of Canadian football is permeated with geographical complexities, infrastructural failings, and a collective exasperation amongst native fans—but has a newly-established league put an end to decades of disillusionment? In this…
Dinamo Zagreb and the Changing Winds of Croatian Football
Dinamo Zagreb’s start to the season currently sees them in third place in the Croatian Premier League, 4 points off leaders Rijeka and rivals Hajduk Split in second with a game in…
The Canadian Premier League: A New Era, or Another Experiment Destined For Failure?
The history of Canadian football is permeated with geographical complexities, infrastructural failings, and a collective exasperation amongst native fans—but has a newly-established league put an end to decades of disillusionment? In this…
Liverpool Are Fun Again
The Champions League is the pinnacle of club football, but the Europa League is not that bad, right? You are still competing for a major title, you are still going up against…
Canadian Football: Success Abroad, but at What Local Cost?
The history of Canadian football is permeated with geographical complexities, infrastructural failings, and a collective exasperation amongst native fans—but has a newly-established league put an end to decades of disillusionment? In this…
Transported to Another World: The Art of Radio Football Commentary
Time and time again, radio football commentary has engaged me in the game like no other medium. My infatuation with it was actually born from my environment rather than personal interest. I will…
Canadian Football: A North American League Wrapped in Stars and Stripes
The history of Canadian football is permeated with geographical complexities, infrastructural failings, and a collective exasperation amongst native fans—but has a newly-established league put an end to decades of disillusionment? In this…
Ballon d’Or: The Golden Ball Filled With Air, Glitter, and Confusion
If Monday’s Ballon d’Or gala was a scene from a movie, the art director would get an Oscar. A red carpet entry to the breathtaking Théâtre du Châtelet. Dark tuxedos, beige upholstery,…