European Football

France manager Corrine Diacre’s fallout with Lyonnaises threatens to derail Euro 2021 ambitions

November 26, 2020

Jessy Parker Humphreys explains the background to the unrest in theFrench camp and why their fragile truce will be tested against Austria. France head into their final two [...]

This Week’s Winners and Losers

November 23, 2020

Ali Rampling reflects on the winners and losers of world football this week as Southend United recorded their first win of the League Two season and Barcelona had a week to [...]

Fascinating title battles set to come in the women’s European leagues

November 23, 2020

Some rivalries are close — Martina Navratilova edged Chris Evert 43-37 in their tussles. Other battles saw one adversary hold a distinct advantage — Serena Williams with [...]

Battles with closest rivals have swung league results in the past: but how are title tussles across the women’s European leagues shaping up so far?

November 16, 2020

In the past, the title races of the Primera División Femenina, Frauen Bundesliga, and Division 1 Féminine could have ended drastically differently, had one result changed [...]

Women’s Champions League clubs divided on homegrown talent vs overseas recruitment

November 9, 2020

The Women’s Champions League was back this week with the first qualifying round taking place however the teams more fancied to win the competition don’t start [...]

This Week’s Winners and Losers

November 4, 2020

Ali Rampling takes a look at the winners and losers after another weekend of football Winners Wycombe Wanderers The Chairboys made our losers list last week after conceding [...]

World football’s winners and losers this week

October 27, 2020

Ali Rampling takes a look at who came out of the week’s action in the best and worst shape. Winners Ajax The 34-time Dutch champions broke their own 48-year-old record as [...]

Euro round up: Bayern record third straight win as Lyon maintain winning start in France

September 29, 2020

Martin Whiteley fills us in on the weekend’s European action from theFrauen-Bundesliga where Bayern made it three wins in a row while Lyon continued their winning run in [...]

A Niche of Their Own: Gravesen and Braithwaite

June 15, 2020

By Tom Dean Seeing Martin Braithwaite score for Barcelona at the weekend reminded me of that bizarre moment in history when Thomas Gravesen signed for Real Madrid. Thomas [...]

The story of Italy’s incredible 2006 strike force and Lippi’s finest work

April 22, 2020

By Tom Dean A look back at Italy’s 2006 World Cup winning squad reveals an incredible surplus of strikers and how Marcello Lippi found a use for all of them on the road to [...]