There’s a moment in the premiere of The Athletic FC: Daily Cup where the numbers stop being abstract and start...
Beth Mead didn't wait for the ink to dry before calling her move to Manchester City a 'no-brainer'. The 31-yea...
An Irish international football match has been stripped of its home advantage before a ball was even kicked. T...
Didier Deschamps looked like a man who had just been asked to explain the offside rule to a room full of philo...
Leaving Cole Palmer at home surprised me. That's Emma Hayes, speaking her truth, and it lands like a cross int...
This newsletter is five years old. Which means I've watched enough sports to know when a week is properly insa...
Kenny Jackett never managed in the Premier League. He never lifted a trophy that came with a television truck....
Yaya Sithole will want to forget the 14th minute of his World Cup career. Everyone else will remember it forev...
Picture it: 1990, the Stadio Comunale in Florence. The ball is a sodden medicine cabinet stitched from dead co...
The walk to the Azteca on Thursday was a masterclass in cognitive dissonance.Steel barriers. Armed volunteers....
The 80th minute. A ball drops in the Czech box like a hot potato nobody wants to handle. Oh Hyeon-gyu, on the...
The moment came not on the pitch, but in a sterile press conference room in Toronto, 24 hours before Canada’s...
The first thing you notice isn't the pitch. It's the roof. White, floating, hovering like a cumulus cloud that...
The Azteca was full 90 minutes before kick-off. 83,000 people who had spent 40 years waiting, who had navigate...
Nine minutes. That was all it took for the World Cup to serve up its first lesson in the difference between th...
Deep into stoppage time at the Mexico City Stadium, referee Wilton Pereira Sampaio reached for his back pocket...
Open-top trucks roll past every few hours. Men in helmets and masks, machine guns slung low, patrol the perime...
As Elliot Anderson boarded the plane to Florida with the England squad, the chatter around him was palpable -...
The World Cup is finally here, and what better way to kick it off than with a montage that tugs at the heartst...
Thomas Tuchel is tasked with restoring England's footballing pride, and what better way to do that than by 'pu...