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.

Walsall are challenging for promotion from League Two this season, despite having one of the lowest average shares of possession of any team in the division. Is possession overrated? It really depends

Club of David Beckham and Lionel Messi finally get their hands on the MLS Cup

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

After the success of fly-on-the-wall series The Bardsley Bunch, do you consider yourself an ex-footballer or a reality TV star these days? [Laughs] Both I suppose, but primarily I’m a businessman now.

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