Football
The space man
Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration
The football world’s war on free speech
Football authorities are attempting to insist on what political values players and supporters should represent
Back in the big time
It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”
Not only a game
This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
The problem with football pundits
Why are we so often stuck with inarticulate ex-pros?