The average professional football boot weighs between 200-250 grams – about 40% lighter than boots from the 1990s. That represents about 30 years’ worth of progress, but people have been playing organised football since the […]
Football is always evolving. If you could watch a game back in 1900 it would be unrecognisable from a game today. I’m not talking about how the ball has changed or the lack of sponsorship […]
There have been some absolute belters over the years haven’t there? Football songs and chants have provided some brilliantly funny moments, and some not so funny ones, too, but then, football fans aren’t known for […]
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the old football firms were big news. Hooliganism was known internationally as ‘The English Disease’, perhaps unfairly given the prevalence of the Italian and Spanish Ultras, the Argentine Barra […]
Football is officially the most popular sport in the world. It draws in huge crowds at stadiums and on television, but the fans give all of their focus to the players, the managers, the match […]
You probably don’t recognise the name, Arthur Wharton. Not many people would these days. Yet he is one of the most significant footballers the sport has ever known. He never played for England, he didn’t […]
All good things must come to an end, and in football, quite a lot of badly run football clubs come to an end too. Believe it or not, there are more than 40,000 association clubs […]
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