The history of football is often told as one of the great sides emerging before slipping away and passing that mantle to others. Despite that, there had been something crushingly perfect about ...

A celebration of These Football Times’ writers’ favourite stars of the 2000s, from Xabi Alonso and Kaka to Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry ...

TEAMING UP WITH THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CLUBS AND BRANDS, AWARD-WINNING CONTENT BY SOME OF THE GAME’S FINEST AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS. No fillers, no compromise. Football as it should be. We’re on a ...

From the relentless Grand Slam dominance of the Williams sisters to the squabbling rock ‘n’ roll petulance of the Gallagher brothers, there are few things in life capable of compelling the masses more ...

Many bands have penned odes to their hometowns over time, singing the praises of their local streets and parks. The Beatles waxed lyrical over Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields; The Kinks invited us to ...

Illustration by Federico Manasse The legendary Dinamo Kyiv side marshalled by Valeriy Lobanovskyi was widely viewed as a precise, scientific machine with clearly-defined roles. But there was one spark ...

The food sold in the ground. Everyone expects changes when new owners take over at a football club. Most of the time this means replacing the manager, bringing in some new people and perhaps looking ...

Originally featured in the sold-out Leeds United magazine, support high-quality, wholly independent journalism by ordering our magazine. It’s what keeps everything online free. . It was with an outer ...

The year is 1872. Ulysses S. Grant is elected president of the US, Yellowstone becomes the world’s first national park, and the first case of Horse Flu is reported in Toronto, Canada, which will ...

THERE IS A WELL-TOLD TALE, one shrouded in layers of conspiracy and confusion, of the saga that preceded Alfredo Di Stéfano’s transfer to Real Madrid. The details are different depending on who you ...

Argentinos Juniors have long been renowned in Argentina as the cradle of the stars, a place where several greats have been nurtured and gone on to legend. Some of Argentina’s finest have come through ...

WHILE THE WORLD was in the death grip of the worst economic depression in history in the summer of 1934, fascist Italy hosted the second FIFA World Cup in what remains the only edition where the host ...