It’s probably a testament to the power of football that it remains the most popular sport on the planet, despite the apparent determination of the game’s administrators to make it less fun. The latest ...

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Football, played right, can be really, really fun. More fun, even, than that supposedly beautiful game, the one they just played the championship of, the one that the whole world just loves, but that ...

The Open Fun Football Schools programme, backed by UEFA, continues to use football as a vital component in bringing together people in divided communities. The UEFA-backed Open Fun Football Schools ...

Erling Haaland or Harry Kane? Mo Salah or Marcus Rashford? Use the “triple captain” chip or save it? This weekend (and pretty much every weekend until the end of May), millions of people around the ...

When justifying the implementation of more stringent unsportsmanlike conduct penalties this season, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell claimed “we all have standards.” In his defense, he never specified ...