The best of football

Ubiquitous Marmite footwear brand Crocs isn’t going anywhere. Function has officially met fashion, with Gen Z’s penchant for casual comfort snapping them into the mainstream. So why is Lukas Podolski

From sharp designs to visual crimes, we size up the peloton’s latest wardrobe

The end. The collapse. The exhaustion of 11 Arsenal players, slumping to the turf against the glittering backdrop of a Toon foil display. Mikel Arteta’s thousand-yard stare. Granit Xhaka’s chevron bro

After the FA lifted their ban on women playing at Football League grounds, England’s Lionesses played their first international in 1972 – two years later, Liz Deighan won her first cap against France

Opening the box containing the ASICS Metaspeed Sky Tokyo, I got sensory overload... and then sensory underload. The bright Flash Red/ Black colour scheme was striking and positive, and I liked it a lo

Most children dream of becoming firefighters, astronauts or footballers – but Liam Rosenior wasn’t most children. From an early age, he wanted to become a football manager. “At the age of nine, I read