Spain’s journey from perennial underachievers to world champions has been one of the great stories in international football, ...

Supporting the national team is a slightly peculiar pursuit at the best of times. England fans turn up in numbers that few ...

The Tartan Army are routinely talked about as the gold standard for travelling supporters and most years they live up to the ...

If both sides progress through the round of 32 and the round of 16, the Netherlands and Germany could potentially meet in the ...

When it comes to top-class football, you are going to struggle to find a better set of leagues to look at than the ones in Europe. The problem there, of course, is that the games are on at a time that ...

When Cruyff returned to the club he played for during his playing career as boss, Barcelona was in the midst of something of a lean spell. The Blaugrana had won La Liga just once in the 14 years ...

72 hours between matches, at least one day off per week, and three weeks of holiday after a season. A few of the measures FIFA wants to introduce to protect players from the congested calendar. It is ...

They may not have been to everybody’s taste, including a certain Mr Brian Clough, but Leeds United, under Don Revie in the late 1960s and early 1970s, were amongst the best teams of their time in the ...

There are many details about football clubs that fade into the obscurity of myth and history. Many football clubs have mottos that date back decades or even a century and a bit. One of the most famous ...

There are plenty of people out there that don’t care about international football. More often than not, it is people who support a club side that has enjoyed success over the years, so the likes of ...

The history of Sunderland AFC is one that has been filled with disappointments and close calls far more than it has with joy and excitement. Although the Black Cats have won the top-flight title six ...

Although Liverpool and Manchester United regularly do battle for the title of being the country’s most successful football club, Arsenal are in the conversation when it comes to the team that does the ...