In an era when elite football is shaped by global broadcasting deals, international tours and commercial branding, it can be easy to forget the power of supporters at the heart of a club. Yet in Germany, where fan influence is structurally enshrined through the 50+1 rule and culturally embedded in matchday life, supporters are increasingly…
There is an ugly truth to modern football that the fixture list is a plaything of the paymasters. Ink a TV deal and suddenly tradition is a scheduling inconvenience. But in Germany, that blunt economic logic collided with something more stubborn – supporters’ culture – and lost. The story of how Bundesliga terraces emptied on…
This page contains affiliate links and we may earn a commission from any products or services you buy. Amazon have launched a new Fire Stick that could spell the end for illegal streaming of Premier League fixtures. The new Fire Stick Select launched this month is the first Fire Stick that does not use the…
I write a TV column every week because I watch a lot of football from all over Europe, probably a lot more than most, including Serie A and B and Bundesliga 1 and 2 on YouTube, which I heartily recommend if you’ve not embraced it. Watching so much football has taught me that the entertainment…
Sunderland are reportedly closing in on the club-record £30.3million signing of Strasbourg and Senegal midfielder Habib Diarra. They’re not messing around after returning to the Premier League, having beaten fellow promoted club Leeds United to the youngster’s signature. Not only would this be a record deal for the Black Cats, it would also become the…
Here are the quite preposterous records, achievements and statistics of Barcelona’s 17-year-old sensation, Lamine Yamal. We’re absolutely buzzing to be updating this every week for the next 20 years… Lamine Yamal is the youngest player to… * Start a La Liga game (16 years, 38 days old) * Play in La Liga (15 years,…