Football is tribal, football is cathartic, football is where you get to let off some steam after gritting your teeth all week. And, for all of that, you need someone to hate.

Comparing boys football to girls in terms of quality is unfair. Girls' football is growing fast but there's so many more boys playing the game. In our league alone, there are 79 teams and around 1,200 boys. The equivalent girls' league is tiny in comparison. There are very good girl players, but there's a lot fewer of them.

In America sport is a social occasion, not a life-and-death embodiment of their hopes and desires. When was the last time you had actual, tangible fun at a football match in England?

A hooligan who ran on to the pitch and assaulted a goalkeeper during a Championship football match has been identified by police. The suspect, who ...

Police are working to identify a man who ran on to the pitch at a Championship football match and violently slapped a goalkeeper. Sheffield Wednesd...

Tottenham Hotspur's brand of football in the 1994/95 Premiership season was as suicidal for their goalkeeper as it was superb to watch. They laid down...