9 cardinal sins of football fandom: Loanees, half-and-half scarves, Stone Island…
How many of them are you guilty of?
Articles By Andrew Martin
7 of football’s most bizarre curses: Mick Jagger, Aaron Ramsey, fake gold medals…
Spooky, strange, often both.
Ranking all 12 of Newcastle’s post-takeover signings from worst to best
More hits than misses, we'd say.
A wonderful XI of footballing gods who wore Adidas Predators: Beckham, Zidane…
Just reading the names in this XI has made us drool.
Which Champions League team should you support? We’ve decided your fate…
We've psychoanalysed all 16 remaining teams in the 2023-24 edition.
A jaw-droppingly good XI of footballers who were born in the wrong era
Feast your eyes on this lot.
Sebastien Haller & the Zombie Elephants – AFCON 2024 destroyed our reality
The miracle of Ivory Coast's AFCON win will be remembered for years.
The 10 fastest Premier League players since 2020-21: Van de Ven, Walker, Szoboszlai…
Descendants of Speedy Gonzalez, this lot.
F*ck blue cards: 9 rule changes to put the cat amongst the pigeons & save football
We're available at a reasonable price, Infantino.
9 football fashion offences so bad they make our eyeballs bleed: Infantino, Beckham…
More money than sense, this lot.
Paulo Dybala’s Roman renaissance is breathing life back into the beautiful game
La Joya truly is a joy.
The sexiest pass of 2024 has already been pinged – chefs are kissing their fingers across Italy
When did he become this good?
La Carrington is cooking – Mainoo’s midfield partner is a creative freak with a telepathic brain
Man Utd are onto something...
A beautifully brain-itching Premier League XI using numbers by position: Sterling, Haaland, Szoboszlai…
Make numbers by position a requirement. Please.
Do left-footers have the hardest shots? An (almost) scientific investigation into a football phenomenon
We've asked actual sport scientists whether left-footers hit the ball harder.
Can derbies ever be nice? 5 times heated rivalries became unexpectedly friendly
Football doesn't need to be all angst and hatred...
3 former Newcastle players we can’t believe are still free agents
It's shocked us that this lot are still unemployed.
Remember Hatem Ben Arfa? He’s busy conquering the world at another sport
Ben Arfa is becoming one of France's leading Padel players.
England’s newest Champions League baller has already out-achieved us all at 17
My mam is shouting through my bedroom door. “Andrew! Are you up?!” “Yeah! Just getting ready!” I reply, eyes shut, wrapped in a duvet, doing my best impression of an awake person. I absolutely hate sixth form, and I plan on savouring every last moment in my bed, because my bed is not sixth form […]
