The US is going to South Africa.  As I followed Grant Wahl’s twitter feed of Saturday’s game from San Pedro Sula, an odd experience of using a 2009 technology to get around the 1980 closed circuit, I was surprised, impressed, and pleased with th...

Continuing our series on the stadiums being built for the UEFA European Championships in 2012, to be hosted jointly by Poland and the Ukraine, we look today at Gdańsk. There, a new 44,000 capacity stadium, the PGE Arena Gdańsk, is currently under...

Once the English press has sunk its teeth into you, it’ll find anything to try and ramp up the pressure, making a parody of itself in the process. Hence the new “storm” today over John Terry’s selections for FIFA’s World Player of the Year...

Siena vs. Catania, Stadio Artemio Franchi, Serie A. December 6th, 2009. Photo Daily: SiciliaToday on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.

So Messi won the FIFA Men’s Player of the Year Award, and Marta won the FIFA Women’s Player of the Year Award, and no-one was surprised. But should we have been? There’s enough out there about Messi, so let’s look at Marta and the women’s award for a...

A new series to complement our Thursday classic programme series, we will look at football postcards from the days when people lived in sepia. Today, a Manchester United postcard from the 1910-11 season, part of the “Strength & Health Series”. Man Utd...