August 8, 2012
Team GB won the public’s backing, but fell short when it mattered
Despite concerns about widespread indifference to the British Olympic football team, the public voted with their feet and gave the concept a resounding thumbs up.
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Columnists
Opinions from some of football’s leading voices
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August 7, 2012
Should players pay the price for their misbehaviour?
Whereas Italian players donated their Euro 2012 bonuses to hardship funds created to help victims of the Emilia Romagna earthquake, their French counterparts face calls to have bonus removed.
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August 2, 2012
Team GB confound Olympic expectations
Expectations were low, but Team GB have surprised many by the way they have performed and improved throughout the Men's Olympic football tournament.
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August 1, 2012
Kick it out! FIFA vows to get tough on racism
Chastened by the reaction to his call for incidents of racism to be settled by a handshake, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has pledged to adopt a more aggressive stance on discrimination.
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July 31, 2012
Time to drop the Terry case and move on?
Having been found innocent in a court of law, should John Terry have subsequently been charged by the Football Association? Brian Glanville on the case that refuses to go away.
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July 29, 2012
FIFA’s new ethics chief will have his hands full
FIFA’s new ethics investigators are planning to set up a complaints “pipeline” available to absolutely anyone who suspects corrupt behaviour within the world federation.
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July 27, 2012
Olympic football gets underway
The entire Games extravaganza was kicked off – literally – by the women’s football game between Great Britain and New Zealand; then the British men’s starter at Manchester United’s Old Trafford pulled in a 72,176…
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July 24, 2012
Player power illustrates the frustrations of modern game
The transfer sagas involving several Premier League players look set to continue throughout the summer. Plus, reliving some of Portsmouth's happier days.
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July 19, 2012
CAS Bin Hammam judgment opens can of worms for FIFA
The entire fragile political power balance of world football has been thrown back into confusion by Mohamed Bin Hammam's success in having his life ban from the game - imposed by FIFA last year -…
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July 17, 2012
John Terry court appearance: a case of police wasting police time?
John Terry was found not guilty, but given the ambiguity of the evidence, a more accurate verdict would have been Not Proven. Brian Glanville analyses the Terry case and wonders whether it should have made…
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July 16, 2012
Blatter on the ropes but fighting his corner
With his position as FIFA president under scrutiny following the publication of the infamous ISL file, Sepp Blatter has come out fighting and even started making accusations about his detractors.
