Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, was a literary polymath best known as a colossus of football writing. A uniquely authoritative and influential figure in the world of sports journalism, he was ...

The pain. The penalties. The hairsplitting VAR decisions and astounding off-field politics. From ageing titans to miraculous goals, the FIFA World Cup brims with drama and athleticism. Where to turn ...

For decades football was sullied by hooliganism. In 1985 the Sunday Times, a British newspaper, decried “a slum sport played in slum stadiums increasingly watched by slum people”. In “Among the Thugs” ...

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Some of the questions Chuck Klosterman asks in his new book Football are questions you would expect a Chuck Klosterman book about football to ask: Why are Americans so obsessed with the sport? What ...

His new book examines the strength of the sport’s hold on society—and what ultimately might send it spiraling to its demise. We talked to him about it all. Chuck Klosterman, best-selling author and ...