FIFA. Great at filling stadiums at summer club tournaments, great at picking World Cup host nations and great at sharing around its presidency to ensure fresh ideas and full accountability (three in the past 51 years). But what about fashion? Is football’s global governing body any good at that? And is that a question you…
Paris Saint-Germain dominated Real Madrid at MetLife Stadium, winning 4-0 with ease to advance to the Club World Cup final against Chelsea on Sunday. Luis Enrique’s side were in control from the first whistle and went two goals ahead with only nine minutes on the clock. Fabian Ruiz opened the scoring after Ousmane Dembele pounced…
The family of the late Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has agreed to sell soccer club AC Monza to U.S.-based investment firm Beckett Layne Ventures (BLV). A statement on Tuesday confirmed 80 per cent of the club’s shares will be transferred to BLV this summer, with the remaining 20 per cent to be processed by…
Igor Jesus, one of the breakout stars of the Club World Cup, celebrates his goals by imitating a character from a Japanese cartoon. Team-mates at youth level called him Sapinho — Little Frog — because he used to leap around when playing in goal. As a kid, he spent his weekends at a market stall…
Just when you thought you had seen everything football has to offer. How about a missed penalty, a calamitous own goal, and two separate hat-tricks — including a goal straight from a corner, three goals in stoppage time, four in extra time and a 119th-minute winner — all with a place in a tournament final…
Arsene Wenger had a lot to get off his chest in the autumn of 2015. His Arsenal side were in danger of exiting the Champions League at the group stages and their 2-1 loss away to Dinamo Zagreb had become an acute source of irritation. Not because Arsenal had stumbled against their weakest opponents, but…
Four games into his England tenure and Thomas Tuchel has made history, albeit not in the manner he would have wished. England had never before lost to African opposition in 21 matches, but they ended up well beaten in Nottingham. The smiles that Tuchel had hoped to see first-hand were all on Senegalese faces by…
Ivan Toney has been recalled to the England squad for the first time since the 2024 European Championship. The former Brentford forward has been rewarded by Thomas Tuchel for an impressive first season for Saudi Pro League club Al Ahli, where he was part of the side that won the Asian Champions League earlier this…