Matchweek Two is in the bag, and with it Manchester City and Manchester United played their first matches of the campaign. Their results? Markedly different. United were trounced by Crystal Palace at home, while City dispatched Wolves with ease on the road. Elsewhere,...

Aaaaand we’re back! The shortest off-season of all professional sports just got even shorter, thanks to our good friend Covid-19. Teams barely had a chance to sign new players and recover from injuries, although the England men’s team found a way to score more off the...

After Mason Greenwood and Phil Foden burst England’s COVID-19 bubble, a philosophy-affirming victory would have been welcome for Gareth Southgate tonight. Instead, his side delivered a goalless draw and one of those performances which will leave him asking the most...

Nations League Group 2 Iceland 0:1 England (Sterling pen 90+1).  Sent off: Walker, 70’’, Ingason, 89’’  Hello you. It’s been a while. England played a football match this evening – their first in ten months. The international game came back with an ear-splitting bang...

It has been just shy of nine months since England last played a football match. In that time, you could – if you were feeling particularly buoyant in the wake of the national team's 4-0 victory over Kosovo on 17 November 2019 – have conceived, gestated, and delivered...

Another season has passed, yet not a season like we’ve ever seen before. Not since World War II has a football season been suspended, and never in the history of the Premier League. The next season is scheduled to start in mid-September, which means that the shortest...

Bang. Darkness, then light. Nothing – then everything at once. That was how it all started, with the totality of all there ever was and all there ever will be exploding into being. The original New Normal. Suddenly, there was everything to play for and forever to...

Whew, these matches are flying by! European football associations should consider making this sort of schedule permanent : by adding a Champions League tournament at the end of the season, it would ensure that players are able to focus more on their league games. It...

Thirty years of hurt never stopped them dreaming. This was a triumph for unity and for innovation. It was a triumph for calculation, for critical distance, for fist-pumping. For throw-in coaches, for sci-fi pitches, for shrewd transfer policy. For Mane, for Bobby, for...

What a break. What a return. Will football ever look the same in the future? After not playing a match since March 9th, the Premier League came roaring back over the past two weeks, bringing smiles to the faces of many, joy to Liverpool (congratulations, Liverpool...

In the match of the tournament, Eusebio’s late penalty couldn’t forestall his tears. Bobby Charlton’s double secured a historic, earth-shaking victory England – one a century in the making. After their triumph over the Soviet Union yesterday evening, West Germany will...

One last chance. There's always one last chance. Tactics, mind-games, a thousand man-hours of preparation: all drop out the equation, rendered meaningless in the face of one. last. chance. Except in Lisbon tonight, there were two. In the end, it was a tale of two...