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The Backheel: Football's Space Craft

While you will be familiar with 3-4-3 and 4-2-4 and 3-5-1-1 and suchlike as ways of describing how a team plays, I don’t like this numbers game.

South Africa Claim Finals Place

Line-up for Nations Cup in Egypt now complete

Cups Will Be Given Priority

League often takes second place

The Sorry Tale Of Two Clubs

Belenenses split in two

Tipping Point?

Record-breaking attendances suggest that this could be a breakthrough year

Cristiano Ronaldo

A Euro winner for club and country, but Sid Lowe asks: was it his best year?

Keir Radnedge The Insider

Keir Radnedge The Insider

Grasshoppers Crash Out Of Super League

Three years ago, Uli Forte was appointed coach of Zurich with a handful of games left that season in a bid to save the 12-time national champions from relegation. Ultimately, he failed, but he did lead the team back to the top flight at the first attempt.

Infantino's African problem

Within hours of Gianni Infantino’s reelection as FIFA president, the smile was wiped off his face by the latest farcical twist within CAF.

2018 -19 Season Review

LILLE ON THE RISE

Juventus Make It Eight In A Row

But celebrations are flat after European exit.

Bayern Make It Seven In A Row

But Dortmund push them all the way.

Big Guns Go Out

The decision to expand the field to 24 teams met with much scepticism, but the first knockout stage delivered a raft of upsets and thrilling contests to give the tournament a much-needed injection of excitement after a relatively sterile group phase.

Mallorca Back In Business

Wild celebrations as Balearics club returns to the Spanish top flight

Algeria Claim Top Prize

Mahrez and his team-mates triumph over Senegal in Cairo

Spending Hits New Heights

Spain had hit the billion-Euro mark before the madness had even really begun.

Keir Radnedge

Infantino and Ceferin are odds-on to retain their presidential posts.

Crisis In Italy

Power struggles, legal action and strike threats

Battle For The Soul Of Spanish Football

La Liga president Javier Tebas is facing mounting opposition to his plan to play a league match in the USA

Paul Gardner

The experts are holding youngsters back

Modric Unites And Divides A Nation

World Cup star still due in court charged with perjury

The Boy With The World At His Feet

Winning the World Cup at 19 looks to be just the beginning for the young French superstar

8 Europa League Players To Watch

Nick Bidwell highlights the names to keep an eye on in this season’s competition.

Breakout Star

After an injury-interrupted start to his career in Spain, Barcelona’s French star is now making his mark.

Gabriele Gravina

Italian federation boss tasked with introducing B teams into Serie C

Caught In A Political Storm

Midfielder quits national team in racism row

Jonathan Wilson Technically Speaking

Why can’t Europe’s best teams defend?

Phil Neville

“The gender is different but the game is the same”The England women’s coach, and former Manchester United and Everton player, looks ahead to the Women’s World Cup

Jim Holden At The Heart Of The Game

This season’s second best is no failure.

The Biggest Finals Yet

Growing interest and rising standards will be confirmed this summer in France.