Jurgen Klopp will leave Liverpool with a remarkably similar legacy to the club’s iconic manager, Bill Shankly.
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Researchers spent months volunteering with Fans Supporting Foodbanks to see how left-behind communities were fighting food poverty.
Court leet records provide a vivid picture of the disagreements and disputes which pre-occupied medieval townspeople.
The merchandise and clothing available to fans of women’s teams is often limited, undesirable or just not available.
Defences win championships - and Morocco has all that it takes to lift the trophy.
Sport has long been an unsafe place for LGBTQ+ players, but Jake Daniels’s coming out could change things for men’s football.
The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup ushered in a new age for media coverage of women’s sport. A new survey of fans shows that while many men feel threatened, a growing number are on board.
Is the decades-old policy of not broadcasting 3pm football games in England still necessary?
The racist abuse of England’s black players was predictable and easily monitored.
International football tournaments take us on a rollercoaster of emotions. After the stresses of the past 15 months, watching matches with friends can keep us on a more even keel.
The failure of the ESL does not represent a victory of fans over commerce, or of culture over capitalism. It is the very existence of fans that cements football’s commercial nature.
Two days after 12 of Europe’s leading clubs broke away to launch a new competition, they appear to be back in the fold.
Some fans even said they would be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, giving their own lives to save other supporters of their team.
Liverpool fan John Williams has banished the ghosts of 30 years. Liverpool are champions of the English Premier League and, as far as he is concerned, things are as they should be.
The business model of the AFL and NRL is simple: attract a television audience, sell that audience to advertisers. To do that they need crowds.
The clubs no longer ‘belong’ to the fans - they have become instruments in an ideological war between Western capitalism and the rent hungry sheikhs of the Gulf states.
Race is embedded into the way many Italians look at themselves. The Italian nation is thought to be constituted first and foremost by white Catholics.
The nervous Egyptian state hopes that fan-instigated stadium riots will not occur during the Afcon, following a clampdown on some fans.
High-profile cases of corruption, ticket touting and match fixing have led Italians to lose faith in the beautiful game.
The science of why people prefer to watch games with teams that are close in ability levels rather than a game where one team is far better than the other.
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