Beyond the pitch

D avid Duke knows better than most people how quickly life can spin out of control. The Glaswegian had a girlfriend, a steady bar job and an apartment in his hometown, when some unexpected news change

A week is said to be a lifetime in football. That adage has never rung truer than for Morecambe, who across just seven summer days, journeyed from despair to delirium. On Saturday, August 16, most oth

Exploring the weird and wonderful world of football across FIFA’s 211 member nations –and beyond

Last year, artist and designer Christian Jeffery saw images of Jose Ponce carrying a Valencia jersey drenched in mud, following the floods in the Spanish city in October 2024. He was inspired to turn

You can’t overstate just how big the shirt sponsors were in 1970s French football. Back when kit sponsorship was still a relatively new concept, being tentatively phased in across the game, clubs in t

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