At 26, most football fans are worrying about which pub to meet their mates at on a matchday. Matt Porter isn’t most football fans. By that age, he was already running his boyhood EFL club, Leyton Orie

One year ago, Lee Carsley had the weight of the world on his shoulders – or the weight of England, at least. Greece had just come to Wembley and won after the Three Lions’ interim boss – in place foll

J ack Wilshere is such a smiling character that it’s occasionally easy to forget how much of a competitor he is. Short in stature but not willpower, Wilshere was training alongside Thierry Henry at 14

His own stag do in Nashville couldn’t stop Harry Hugo watching a football match – even if it was a Surrey Senior Cup clash between Farnham Town and Tooting & Mitcham. Hugo, Farnham’s owner and chairma

For the first time in 17 years, Tottenham actually won a trophy – a first European trophy since 1984, no less. That they did it in the same season as their lowest league finish for 47 years made it al

Hearts could be about to create more drama in Scottish football and overturn the Old Firm, says Simon Barnes