Italy’s one of the strongest football nations in the world, and many would expect there to be plenty of Italian players who have won the Premier League. However, Italians’ track record in the Premier ...

Referees have immense power in football matches, as they look to maintain order and control game flow across the 90 minutes of every game. One of the main punishments a referee can issue is yellow and ...

The 2020s are proving to be the decade of set pieces. With corner goals back in vogue and rugby-style kick-offs becoming fashionable again, throw-in tactics have been going the same way: longer, and ...

Arsenal reached a memorable milestone on Sunday after beating Crystal Palace in the Premier League.Eberechi Eze’s goal ...

Welcome to the sixth edition of The Alternative Premier League Table, where each Thursday, Anantaajith Raghuraman analyses the entire division through a specific lens. After looking at each club’s ...

As the strains of Hey Jude reverberated around the Gtech Community Stadium, Bruno Fernandes stood, hands on hips, head bowed, looking like someone trying to summon the energy to do what needed to be ...

MANCHESTER UNITED are officially this season’s Premier League long ball kings. Liverpool boss Arne Slot bemoaned the Red ...

Welcome to week seven of The Athletic’s Premier League predictions challenge, where we need to talk about Brighton & Hove Albion. Fabian Hurzeler’s team have played six Premier League games this ...

If you tune into any Premier League game this season there is only a 54.7 per cent chance the ball is in play (Credit: Serena Taylor) Xabi Alonso has never forgotten his introduction to the Premier ...

Nick Woltemade, Florian Wirtz and Sean Longstaff have had contrasting fortunes so far (Getty Images; design: Eamonn Dalton) A lot can happen in a month of football. On September 2, a day after the ...

The elephant in the room, of course, is the tragic death of Diogo Jota. The former Liverpool player died in a car accident along with his brother, André Silva, in July.

Years before Pafos had won the Cypriot league — let alone reached the Champions League — owner Roman Dubov had hung pictures of the Bernabeu, Stamford Bridge and a few other iconic stadiums on the ...