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

When Sir Alex Ferguson signed Nani for Manchester United in 2007, the first thing he wanted to know was whether the young Portuguese winger had the mentality required to succeed in the Premier League.

Sometimes in life, timing is everything. Alex Scott can attest to that. Making it from the Channel Islands to the England men’s squad is so difficult that no-one had done it for 31 years before Scott

There aren’t many 17-year-olds who have been playing senior football for one of Europe’s biggest clubs. There are even fewer who have been putting in man-of-the-match performances alongside the likes

Had qualification for the World Cup been decided by population, Spain would only just have made it for the past seven tournaments. Ranked 31st by that metric, they lag behind Myanmar, Sudan and Colomb

Martin Odegaard has been living with Arsenal’s past for almost as long as he’s been alive. When the club last felt invincible, Odegaard was a small child in Drammen, Norway, kicking a ball against the