Chelsea's players, coaches and agents are now football's wealthiest millionaires. Surely the billions taken from the Russian people by an oligarch in….

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about….

I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and ….

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere..

You'd never last in South America. Fans take their radios to the stadium so they can think what the commentators think..

Football is not merely a small business, it's also a bad one. Anyone who spends any time inside football soon discovers that just as oil is part of t….

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity..

Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about £1.4b….