In defence of the Premier League, which is not a one-club monarchy or a state project, and isn’t spending eight months limbering up for April theguardian.com/football/2026/…

My nominee for Wonderful Soccer Article of the Year is this by Valair Shabilla Valair ⚽️🇺🇸 🇮🇶 🇲🇽 socceramerica.com/i-learned-the-…

Entrevista exclusiva com Endrick para o The Guardian Como o brasileiro reagiu após Carlo Ancelotti praticamente o descartar da Copa do Mundo antes de enfrentar a Croácia? E como o brasileiro lida com as redes sociais? Clica aí que foi bem legal o papo theguardian.com/football/2026/…

NEW: On this International Workers’ Day, a Substack post on Uruguay’s Olympic Generation, workers before they became legends A taste of my new book URUGUAY: Football’s First Global Power, out 8 June via Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books. Perfect World Cup prep open.substack.com/pub/martindacr…

Every World Cup, from Uruguay and Italy in 1930 and 1934, to Russia and Qatar in 2018 and 2022, has been to an extent about presenting an image to the world - Jonathan Wilson theguardian.com/football/2026/…

Leicester City clinched the Premier League title 10 years ago today. Here's a great read about the title triumph, written by Bill Connelly and Tom Hamilton soccerlit.com/2026/05/02/lei…

EXCL Patrick Dorgu interview. Nigerian heritage, Copenhagen-raised; Amorim criticism; that Sociedad penalty - and ‘Dorgi Best’ telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

🇪🇺 The best story in European football this season. 🇨🇭 In the small, sleepy Swiss town of Thun, something extraordinary has happened. 🏆 A club who'd never won a major trophy are runaway league champions. This is how. 🎁 Free to read on The Athletic | Football nytimes.com/athletic/72467…

On his 39th birthday, an exclusive interview with Cesc Fabregas on: 👷‍♂️ Building at Como ✈️ Premier League return 📖 His little black book 🎮 Being in full control telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/… #cfc #afc

Sat down with Davide Ancelotti, son of Carlo and assistant to him at Bayern, Napoli, Everton, Madrid & now Brazil. We spoke about his influences, his game model, the current football meta, the 4-4-2, playing Pep, defending with Vinicius & Mbappe and more. bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

🇫🇷 Endrick has been in France for just 4 months and he's given a whole interview in French. And just watch his translator, she's so proud of him for being brave and doing it.

Growing tension inside RM. Incident between Mbappe and an Arbeloa staff member; internal criticism of his attitude, though Mbappe's camp say it's an "overinterpretation". Separate confrontation involving Rudiger and a first-team player. The Athletic | Football nytimes.com/athletic/artic…

Full breakdown of the madness/delight/anger at the Emirates last night: Simeone v Berta, Kepa’s booking, Atleti’s badge stomping, Pubill trying to scrap, the TikTok song, Arteta’s dad dancing, Lewis-Skelly’s family moment and more. Extraordinary scenes. telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

Got to be pleased for Arteta. He’s so into this. And what’s happened in the last four games is the opposite of a bottle. It’s details and good management theguardian.com/football/2026/…

Merci, Antoine. nytimes.com/athletic/72563…

The inside story of Arteta's Arsenal rebuild This was written in May 2022 for BBC Sport and makes for VERY interesting reading (if I say so myself) bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

Arsenal see off Atlético Madrid and feel gnawing fear of failure start to fall away The newly found belief Mikel Arteta’s side have shown has now carried them into the Champions League final - Jonathan Wilson theguardian.com/football/2026/…

This is the making of Michael Olise, a unique kid who became a football genius: 📈 A football IQ way above his peers at the age of six 🔟 Putting the No 10 shirt on before the line-up had been announced 🧠 Why coaches had to rethink how to manage him 🔵 The reasons spells at

How the FA helped US Soccer to build its “transformative” new €200 million national training centre in Atlanta, which finally gives football in America a home bbc.co.uk/sport/football…

Where's the money from your exorbitant World Cup tickets going? To FIFA's $14 billion in revenue. Yes, friends in Europe, there's plenty of anger here in the U.S., too. How bad will the scars be in a country whose money FIFA deeply covets? inquirer.com/soccer/world-c…