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Football loves new ideas. Novel tactical trends, unusual players, and changes in coaching approach. But what are the ideas going ...

The 3-4-3 has become an intriguing option for many top sides, popularised, largely, by Chelsea, with both Antonio Conte and ...

There was a period before Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, and after Pele and Maradona, where no one player held the Greatest Of ...

Football today is big business. Not only do the best teams have to be great on the pitch, but they have to be great in the board ...

Sporting Lisbon had been without a trophy for 19 years, they were struggling financially, and had just sacked their manager after 6 ...

The game of football can be divided, split, and broken down into many elements. But as a team, there are certain passages of play ...

The image is iconic: Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer toeing the ball over the line at Camp Nou to secure Manchester United the treble in ...

“Rugby is brilliant,” Pep Guardiola once said, “I teach my players rugby.” But Manchester City look far from a rugby team. So what ...

Roy Hodgson's Fulham had just survived relegation from the Premier League by goal difference. Two season's later they were 4 ...

Don Revie's name is rarely mentioned today. In a thirteen-year period, he elevated Leeds United from being a small, provincial ...

In 2013/14 Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers created a team that would come close to winning the Premier League. Luis Suarez ...

Barcelona finished the 2020-21 season in deep financial distress. They activated a number of “financial levers”, but still had to ...

The greatest club side in history? The AC Milan side of 1988 - 1994 is considered one of them. A side built by Silvio Berlusconi ...

Jurgen Klopp vs Marcelo Bielsa Subscribe to The Athletic for JUST £1 per month with Tifo's introductory offer: ...

Brentford have already shown the Premier League that they will be tough opponents. The fact that they run their club differently to ...

Football can be broken down into two main phases of play; in-possession and out-of-possession. When a team is attacking, ...

Mesut Ozil's time at Arsenal began as a love affair, with street parties celebrating his arrival. He was a consistent source of assists ...

The Adidas Predator, one of the most iconic football boots in the game. Worn by true legends, Zinedine Zidane, David Beckham, ...

When Alexandre Villaplane was made captain of France in 1930, he said it was the happiest day of his life. He was a national ...

Claude Makélélé arrived at Chelsea in 2003 after three successful seasons at Real Madrid. In his time at the west London club he ...