Over 200 career goals, the England captaincy, and on course to becoming the all-time leading scorer for both club and country — by almost any metric, these achievements should be enough to shape even the most eminent of careers. Why then, aged just 26, does it somehow...

It’s a new decade, and already several important England players are injured, with the possibility that one in particular could last months (here’s looking at you, Harry—could you please stop getting injured?). Most of the Premier League’s struggling managers have...

Until mid-2018, the 2010s threatened to be the worst decade in half a century for the England national team. The 1970s – when England failed to qualify for four major tournaments in a row – were an uncontested nadir, the deepest darkest depths of abject failure. But...

When a close friend and footballing mentor began to lose his battle with Alzheimer’s earlier this year, it was the inability to remember players' names he'd watched week in week out which hammered home the cold indifference of this merciless disease. This was a man...

Congratulations, Liverpool, on winning the 2019-2020 Premier League! With Wolves’s stunning comeback to beat Manchester City and Liverpool’s dismantling of Leicester on Boxing Day, the gulf in class (and actual gulf) has proven to be vast. Liverpool are now fully 13...

Festive fixtures are almost upon us. With Boxing Day (As an American, what the heck is Boxing Day, anyway?) just seven days away, I hope you’ve bought your gifts (my cousins are Watford and Tottenham fans, it’s been a rough year for them thus far, but I bought them...

While Britain's political class bumble, stumble and disgruntle in Europe, its footballing representatives continue to be first past the post. Nine entered the Champions League and Europa League group stages, nine have progressed to the next round of negotiations:...

So. Much. Football. How are you guys getting any work done? Every team in the league has played at least two matches in the last eight days, with some having played three (European competitions). Solid teams are beginning to show signs of wear and tear, while elite...

Matchweek 14 flew by us, and if you were too busy shopping or eating turkey to watch, you missed some truly shocking results. The fact that I went 0-5-1 (Leicester’s one-goal win earned me a push in that bet) is telling: little went to plan in a weekend packed with...

Jose Mourinho is Tottenham Hotspur's manager. Still sounds odd, doesn’t it? Juvenile, almost. Like the kind of scenario one might exuberantly play out on FIFA career mode with child-like intrigue: what would happen if this semi-mythical fallen giant of management took...

Matchweek 13 was a potentially pivotal one for several teams, none more so than Tottenham. Entering the week in 14th place, Tottenham’s new manager, Jose Mourinho, led the team to a win against West Ham (as predicted) that brought them all the way back up into the top...