4+ hour, 53+ min ago   (477+ words) Saturday 12 September 2026 It was a good enough line that he repeated it not long afterwards. It was the right tone, too, acknowledging the setback while refusing to catastrophise it, but that he felt he had to say it at all…...

5+ day, 27+ min ago   (1011+ words) Tuesday 8 September 2026 There are three possible explanations as to why there continues to be a draw for the group phase of the Champions League. None of them have very much – if anything at all – to do with working out which…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (571+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 As one crowd drifted out of the stands at the MKM Stadium, in search of a pie or a pint or perhaps a stranger to slap them in the face to make them feel alive after 45 turgid minutes…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (561+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 Chelsea Women has become the first Women’s Super League (WSL) club to pay for its players to freeze their eggs and undergo fertility treatment. The fund, understood to be worth at least £189,000, has enough money to pay for…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (801+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 When David Ions woke up in hospital 18 years ago, handcuffed to the bed, he turned to a nurse and said: “Why the fuck am I still alive?” Ions, and plenty of others like him, are the dabs of…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (869+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 The World Cup semi-final in July was more than a game for most Argentinians. That day, as their national team beat England 2-1 after a nerve-racking match, two of their main players displayed an impromptu banner. “Las Malvinas son…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (599+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 It was supposed to be the start of a brand new era. For the first time ever, Chelsea will be playing all of their Women’s Super League home games at Stamford Bridge, bringing to an end a decade-long…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (323+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 The opening match of the Women’s Super League will have done­ ­little to dispel any pre-season narratives. As Hayes Lane in Bromley was lit up by the league’s brand colours, courtesy of a sunset, this was a match…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (402+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 Hands up if you had a humble fourth official triggering the new football season’s first major refereeing row. Reasonable to have assumed, I would say, that on any pitch there would be at least three other people ahead…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (850+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 It was a moment that supercharged what was already a euphoric celebration. Manchester City were celebrating their Women’s Super League and FA Cup double, only a second ever league title in their history and a first in a…...