“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare had no idea that those same words would apply to one of today’s ongoing terminology rivalries stretching across the Atlantic – the ...

Some will disagree with this geographic categorisation, but for the purpose of this article, ‘the North’ begins at Sheffield. Stoke City are included in the Midlands and Watford counts as being in ...

English football and, in particular, its top flight has never been watched by more people. As well as the 400,000 or so supporters who click through the Premier League’s turnstiles on any given ...

Football became a professional sport in the summer of 1885 with the very first league being contested in 1888 by just 12 clubs. An incredible 120 years later and 11 of the 12 teams are still up and ...

In his book, How Scots Invented the Modern World, American writer Arthur Herman credited the inventiveness of Sots in numerous fields including science, education, medicine, and philosophy and ...

1 The Football Association, Medical and Exercise Science Department, Lilleshall National Sports Centre, Nr Newport, Shropshire TF10 9AT, UK Correspondence to: C Woods, The Football Association, ...