Football

The England women’s footballers, the Lionesses, won the Euro 2025 competition in Basel on Sunday evening, thus retaining the trophy and becoming...

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Football’s staying home

The previous, now ultra-disgraced, former president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, notoriously said of his idea to launch the FIFA Club World Cup: “It w...

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Infantile but consequential

As one might expect, this year having seen the European Championships played in Germany, there has not been a shortage of books about football publish...

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Only in it for the money?

On Sunday evening the England football team became the country’s first men’s line-up to contest a major final outside England. Later that ...

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So near again

So who is going to win the Premier League this season? Surely: Manchester City! They always do. Well, not always, but they have done so for the past t...

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The title chase

After a six-year hiatus, Arsenal returned to play in the UEFA Champions League last Wednesday evening, with a home game at the Emirates Stadium agains...

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Champions League is back

On Sunday afternoon, Arsenal fans saluted their team – and vice versa – at the conclusion of a Premier League season in which they had sig...

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After and before…

Season after season for the past decade and more, a football debate has raged, or at least simmered. Who is better: Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo?...

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Messi v Ronaldo

In the 85th minute of a World Cup quarter-final last Saturday, the England captain, Harry Kane, was for the second occasion in the match given the opp...

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They think it’s ball over…