Lionel Messi and Pelé will be the subject of two separate films on the footballing legends' lives next year. Messi's life story is set to hit the ...

Whenever Barcelona are playing and getting the run-around, you can gauge the universal schadenfreude just by a quick trawl through Twitter. Until Lion...

Those same voices who so revelled in the inevitability of the the San Marino rout take it in turns to lavish praise on Barca, to turn to the bottomless well of superlatives and dub them "the greatest side ever". But are they?

It may be springtime but Paris sizzled ahead of its team’s rendezvous with one of club football’s greatest sides. The more sophisticated Parisian ...

The upturn in Spanish football's fortunes has been little short of remarkable, having spent most of the '90s enviously watching the seemingly inexhaustible conveyor belt of talent playing in England and Italy. However, two crucial developments in recent weeks have threatened to plunge Spanish football, both at club level and internationally, into an unprecedented disaster.

Argentina could only manage a 1-1 draw in Bolivia as players suffered playing at a high altitude, with Lionel Messi reportedly being sick on the pitch...

Lionel Messi has had the handprints of baby son Thiago inked onto his calves. The name of his four-month-old son and his overgrown hands no...

"Good luck seeing a more dramatic match than this one," blurted ITV's beleaguered anchor Adrian Chiles. He had just witnessed Barcelona's 4-0 thumping...

Barcelona fans will agree Lionel Messi is worth his weight in gold, and a Japanese jeweller has unveiled a solid golden replica of the Argentine's foo...

An under-strength Real Madrid beat Barcelona for a second time to finish a great week ahead of their much-anticipated Champions League return leg with...

It had been nearly four months since a Clásico until Real Madrid hosted Barcelona in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semi-final last month, and jus...

Lionel Messi didn't get on the scoresheet as Argentina beat Sweden 3-2 in Solan but he did get a smacker from an invading fan. A nervous Messi ...

Lionel Messi won his fourth successive Ballon d'Or award this week and the Barcelona forward has cobbled together his golden balls for a couple of sna...

Lionel Messi didn't even vote for Cristiano Ronaldo in his top three choices for the Fifa Ballon d'Or awards, as tactical voting dominated players and...

Football awards can often be used as a barometer to gauge the intelligence of the game's coaches and players. At the Ballon d'Or on Monday night, the ...

Lionel Messi has been awarded the Ballon d'Or for the fourth successive year. The Barcelona and Argentina forward was announced as the winner of th...

So ridiculous was Gray's hypothetical nonsense that the phrase began to take on a meaning of its own. Combining a healthy dose of xenophobia with a misguided faith in the homegrown underdog, "could they do it on a wet, Tuesday night in Stoke", came to signify a partisan view - predominantly used ironically - in which good old fashioned British traits like 'brute force', 'bravery' and 'blokishness' put pains to pesky foreignisms like 'ability', or 'talent'.

If Messi sees out his career at Barcelona - joining the likes of Casillas, Scholes, Schweinsteiger, Maldini, Totti, De Rossi, Adams, Gerrard, Le Tissier, Xavi and Iniesta, to name but a few - he will be in exalted company.

Lionel Messi, Carles Puyol and Xavi have all signed new contracts with Barcelona. Messi, 25, will ink a new deal until 2018 "in the coming weeks", ...

Lionel Messi has broken Gerd Müller's calendar goals record after he struck twice for Barcelona in their 2-1 Primera Liga win at Real Betis on Sunday...