At a dinner with his players, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta secretly hired a team of professional pickpockets. The sleight-of-hand artists were tasked with going round the...
Back they have come over the past week, one after the other, with the welcomes and embraces of team-mates captured for social media. The international players...
Once an integral part of the towns and cities they called home, dozens of the nation’s Football League grounds have disappeared over the past 30 or...
In the scorching heat of Inter Miami’s training base in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the final moments of Wolverhampton Wanderers’ morning training session are playing out. “We...
One afternoon two seasons ago, an EFL manager was tidying a locker during the players’ warm-up when, underneath a pile of socks and shorts, he found...
San Daniele del Friuli was an atmospheric neighbourhood trattoria in Highbury that was once a regular destination for Arsenal’s players and management. It was located a...
Late in 2023, a delegation of senior Liverpool staff were visiting the college town of Columbia, South Carolina, when they wondered if it might be possible...
The sight of Harry Kane shuffling off the field after an hour of ineffective play in the Euro 2024 final was not how most would have...
Chuck Ramkissoon, the most interesting character in Joseph O’Neill’s award-winning novel Netherland, is a Trinidadian wheeler-dealer who has come to New York to make his fortune....
There are always Sliding Doors moments in a player’s career; points when a lifetime’s path takes a critical turn, based on what feels like a coin...
