“Beautiful football” is one of those terms that gets strewn around with impunity, despite being spectacularly ill-defined. It has, at various times in football’s history, ...

Football likes to call itself "the beautiful game." That will not and cannot be true as long as some of its fans remain so disgusting. Singing "Adolf Hitler, he's coming for you," mimicking the ...

In order to understand the passions of modern football, we need a quick look back into history. Football has existed, in one form or another, since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans ...

World Football: 6 Books Every Fan of the Beautiful Game Should Read. Sean Babcock Jun 7, 2018. Looking for something to read during the last couple weeks of the offseason?

Let me stress: Old Trafford happened to be the location on this occasion, but this article is not directed at any single club. It’s been a long-standing issue across the UK—grown men and women ...

It is often said that football is the beautiful game, resistant to the kinds of doping seen in cycling, baseball or less beautiful games of the same name.

As for elements of UK football culture to avoid… Well, the situation is considerably better than in the dark days of the 1980s, but racism, hooliganism, homophobia and sexism still exist.

Bair, 40, hadn’t played football since his days as a lineman at Ankeny High School in Iowa. He thought he’d be lucky to even be allowed on the team: “Unfortunately, they got an American who ...

Maddox Shaffer, 11 of Oakland passes a football while Maryland quarterback Malik Washington watches during the Terps’ partnership with the Beautiful Lives Project for a "Football Field of Dreams ...