They are often portrayed as being thick as two short planks but are footballers actually brighter than given credit for? Or is all their culture kept exclusively in their left peg?
Controversy over the birth certificate of Lazio's latest Cameroonian youth player...
His shots might look stupid when they don't come off but he's the only player we'd got who'd dare try them...
Costa Rica need to conjure up some giant-killing to creep into the Second Round, but if history is anything to go by it will be a goal they will relish.
In this interview from the archives, the legendary Henry Cooper recalls the night he fought Clay at Arsenal's Highbury...
He's a megastar, he married to a Spice Girl and now he owns his own football team...
For a young Newcastle fan in the '90s a season ticket at St. James' Park was just out of reach, watching Chris Waddle's mercurial twilight years ...
The sporting highlight of the winter is here so we're looking at the coaches who brought the teams through to the Metlife Arena and to the bigges...
Indoor toilets, smart phones and a bit of civility have seen a decline in some much loved sights that were common to every football ground…
Trindiad and Tobago's best club side sit fifteen points clear at the top just 12 games into the season. Can they emulate Arsenal's unbeaten season?
Taking you step-by-step through what the most exciting day of the year is (almost certainly) like...
Know nothing about rugby but are revelling in the chance to spend a few extra hours in the pub? Here's a rundown of...
The football economy is about to implode and it's been a long time coming...
It’s big, it’s not very clever, but it is oh so entertaining. Here’s how I ended up addicted to the adventure...
A beautiful man scores a beautiful goal to embarrass some of the Serie A's finest defenders...
Hysterical egos, squawking women and toilet cubicle liaisons, it's business as usual on John Smiths day...
Watch captain of the mighty Goole FC 'doing a Cantona'.
Bringing him back is not only wrong on entertainment levels but makes a mockery of workplace sexism - it's completely unacceptable...
Of course you've got the Froch Groves rematch, but those aren't the only two lads I'd love to see go toe to toe this year...
Football - It's brilliant and we love it (sometimes). But with awful punditry, silly new rules and social media mad...
It was the night Real Madrid claimed their ninth Champions League title. It was far from a classic Madrid display b...
Two brothers disenchanted by the state of English football go to Germany in search of a proper atmosphere, filming ...
Let's face it, who doesn't love a relegation scrap? It sends qualified doctors mad and makes yoga teachers lob thei...
The Ashes were a mess and where we go now is anyone's guess. Much of what happens is in the lap of two men not even from the UK...
Ex-Everton, Villa and West Ham player Thomas Hitzlsperger has come out but only after he retired - if an active footballer did that, it might be ...
On the face of it they are entirely different, but in their refusal to accept second best and will to change things they are cut from the same cl...
From surly world champ to grill-flogging media darling, George Foreman talks frankly about racism, that fight with Ali, and his famous grill...
Nigeria's golden generation is long gone and after a decade of near obscurity and the most corrupt league in the wo...
Forget Heinz Baked Beans, George Formby and JJB Sports, if Wigan wants to look cool it should start telling how, wi...
Tony Nash and Robin Dixon didn't have a hope, but following months of hard-skiing and hard-boozing in St Moritz the...
They're two of the leading purveyors of the beautiful game but which players would make the greatest combined Xl of...
When the rest of the world was falling in love with Maradona at the 1986 World Cup, I began my obsession with Michael Laudrup. Here's an appreciation of the man many think will end up at Spurs...
We thought it was a wind up, then the draw happened....
From Beefy to Marshy, via Merv the Judge and more, here's a feast of verbal sparring...
I've been a lifelong wrestling fan, but it was seeing the smiling, bloodied face of Mick Foley at King of the Ring ...
Recent years have seen the slow demise of a culture I once loved. Now all we're left with are kids and wannabes. RI...
After the first day of the third test England are just four wickets down for 300 or so runs in the stifling Adelaid...
With Stevie G absent and Spurs buoyed by their Europa League win, bet on Tottenham to beat Liverpool and put your m...
With their sixth album now out, it's time to reflect on why the Wakefield punk-m...
Whether its screws selling to inmates or lags becoming hopelessly addicted, the ...
A chocolate egg is for life, not just for Easter.
If you need some comedy in your life, here's a few underrated comedy gems whose ...
It's not so much top-shelf material I'm interested in as the shelves themselves....
One, Two, Three, Four Hundred...
Undoubtedly one of the greatest films of all time, Goodfellas also throws up the...
From Cruyff's unique two-stripe Holland kit to an Italian shirt with a neo-nazi ...
Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this article....
"It's gonna take time, a whole lotta precious time..."
It's Paul Merson's 47th birthday today and to celebrate we've got 20 quotes that...
We've finally got our shit back after Monday's dramatic release , and a dozen li...
Not so Vlad to have him back.
Sid Owen ran over my foot in Asda.
Started catching up with GoT series 1 yet? Here’s some things to look out for ...
The government is voluntarily surrendering our place at the top table and the Am...
Every now and again we like to remind ourselves of this.
Never crack one of your back teeth again.
One fan's overdue love letter to the only comic to school its readers in Yiddish...
If you want to be THAT guy at the 5-a-side, here's how.