Football icon: the next chapter

Two hours before I played for Nigeria at the Under-17 World Championship in Finland in 2003, our jerseys arrived. We had been waiting for our names to be printed on the back – when they came, we were

GARETH SOUTHGATE “I played with Gareth at Aston Villa, and after the last FA Cup final at the old Wembley, when we lost to Chelsea in 2000, we had a post-final dinner. Having lost, you can imagine, it

You joined current club Angel City in 2024. How have you found LA so far? Life over here is amazing. The weather has been something I said would be different to Manchester, it’s taken some getting use

The smirk on Chloe Kelly’s face didn’t tell the whole story. Nonchalantly trotting towards England’s travelling supporters, one finger raised, half a smile spreading across her lips, her demeanour alm

Speaking to footballers, especially high-profile ones, can sometimes be difficult. Wary of revealing too much, some of them say very little at all. That isn’t the case with Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernand

S ometimes it’s the paths we don’t take. This very thought was beginning to fester in the mind of a young Thomas Frank. In his early 30s and a father of two, Frank was completing a master’s degree in