Explaining why English football has no winter break means explaining Christmas, because the two are the same...
Asking what a sporting director actually does produces different answers at different clubs, which is part of...
Working out what happens when a football club goes into administration is worth doing before it happens...
Asking why some football positions disappeared is really asking how the game reorganised itself, because positions do...
Understanding how football referees are appointed clears up a surprising amount of the weekly argument about them....
Ask why football clubs have nicknames and the answer is that almost nobody chose them. A club’s...
The story of the testimonial match is really the story of what footballers used to earn. A...
Understanding how football shirt sizes changed means accepting that for most of the game’s history, sizing barely...
The football shirt is the most widely worn garment in British sport and the least examined. Every...
Every argument about whether football was harder in the past comes back, eventually, to the ball. For...