The ruling seems to mean that players will always have the option to buy themselves out of their contract, rather than being trapped with a club. That in turn would open the door to the club wanting ...

And yet last summer’s figures show quite clearly that much of thetime spending money on players is more likely to take a club down the league than lift it up. And for that minority of clubs which are ...

Slowly little bits of the media are awakening to the fact that the World Cup final is going to be played on July 19, the absolute height of the American summer, at the New Jersey MetLife Stadium.

One of the key issues concerning discipline and punishment is always the question: “Does it work?” As in does it work in stopping the person or organisation who is punished from doing it again, and ...

The lack of journalistic coverage of football in England however means there is every chance that those clubs that have been guilty of the abuse of young players, either by allowing staff to abuse ...

The Leeds turnaround does look rather strange but in fact their great start to the season did only last three games with wins against Chelsea and Wolverhampton and a draw with Southampton. After that, ...

Certainly the money the PL clubs earn has gone up year after year after year. As the BBC put it “The Premier League has been spectacularly successful since it started in 1992. Since that time consumer ...

Obviously research in this area is hindered by the fact that researchers cannot go around asking under 16 year olds if they have been abused, so instead research focuses on those aged over 18 who ...

Indeed the historic list of free transfers executed by letting it be known in the media that Real Madrid will sign them, if only they will let their contract run down, is quite impressive, as the ...

The answer of course comes from the fact that when journalists write about clubs they don’t use the same metrics by way of comparison. For example, with Arsenal and Tottenham one might consider the ...

For many football fans across the world who closely follow the top domestic leagues, Arsenal’s dynamic duo, William Saliba ...