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

On the morning of 9 January 1905 (22 January on the New Style calendar Soviet Russia later adopted), a crowd of striking workers marched peacefully through Saint Petersburg towards the Winter Palace,

Palermo’s Serie B clash with Spezia is two days away, and fresh suits embossed with the club’s logo are being unloaded from a van outside the Stadio Renzo Barbera. FourFourTwo are going for a typicall

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Tony Bloom has a habit of making accurate predictions. But as the billionaire gambler turned football club owner revealed his forecast for the season ahead, after announcing a 29 per cent investment i

The ‘gateway to the West’ has for years become a relative sanctuary from the onslaught on Ukraine’s frontline. But the city and region’s long history has seen it at the centre of countless conquests