The group of middle-aged men standing and sitting around me on the subway were having a heated discussion. To the untrained ear, it might have sounded like an argument, there are plenty…
WHEN STEPHEN CONSTANTINE TOOK CHARGE of the Indian national team for the second time, he found out that Indian football’s elite academy recruited players from just two youth tournaments in New Delhi.…
AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL MADE A SEISMIC SHIFT in 2006, moving to a different continent as the country left the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and joined the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). It wasn’t the…
IN TEXAS, football only means one thing: gridiron. So when I was travelling around the land of Friday Night Lights, I couldn’t pass up the chance to watch a game. The noise and…
As featured on Guardian Sport IN A WORLD OF IDENTIKIT PREFABRICATED STADIA, where a club’s identity has been sold in order to make room for a wedding hall and conference centre, there…
As featured on Guardian Sport THE 2015/16 WINTER TRANSFER WINDOW was the first time that the world really took note of Chinese football. Huge amounts of money were spent over the winter months…
Asian football has been hit with match-fixing scandals aplenty over the last decade. On 23 May, yet another scandal made the news. Three things made this scandal different: first, it involved one of…
For most fans and players, football in the Olympics plays second fiddle to the World Cup and continental events like the European Championships. However, for South Koreans, including Tottenham Hotspur’s Son Heung-min,…
In a world of oligarch owners and billionaire sheikhs, many corporations are pulling out of football as they simply can’t compete. But is it possible; can a major corporation sustain a club’s position at the top? We take a close look at Samsung-owned K League side Suwon Bluewings.
CHINESE FOOTBALL HAS BEEN GRABBING THE HEADLINES RECENTLY, mainly due to the huge transfer fees that have been paid to entice players to head east. These transfers have made headlines around the…
MOST TEENAGERS COUNT DOWN THE DAYS until they turn 18, eagerly anticipating this milestone in their lives when they gain their independence and are able to do things that they couldn’t as a…