The Football Association (FA) wants 30 per cent of the England men’s national team’s coaching staff to come from ethnically diverse backgrounds by 2028 as part of new plans announced to tackle ...

Another tournament, another agonising chapter in English football’s long catalogue of glorious disappointments. England were dumped out of the World Cup by Argentina following a capitulation that will ...

International football can be a frustrating affair. You wait months to see your players. Half of them get injured playing for their clubs. When you finally meet up, you only have a few days of ...

Argentina declares national holiday to mark World Cup win over England with Falklands Banner plan The Argentine Football Association has announced that July 15 will be National Football Teams Day, in ...

England captain Harry Kane said it is too soon to decide whether the FIFA World Cup 2026 was his final appearance on football's biggest stage. Following England's heartbreaking 2-1 semifinal defeat to ...

All the years that have passed since those red shirts on a summer’s day at a long-gone Wembley Stadium – the humiliations, the occasional triumph, the plentiful servings of self-pity. For a short ...

The weather was so cold, the frozen pitch so hard, that Viv Anderson doubts the match would be played today. Indeed, the stubborn frost – as firm as concrete in some corners of the pitch – prompted ...

A fierce and deeply rooted football rivalry will reignite in Atlanta on Wednesday as Argentina and England face off at Atlanta Stadium with a spot in the World Cup final on the line.

The sixty years of hurt goes on. And the pain has never felt worse. Thomas Tuchel got it wrong. He invited the pressure on. It was unsustainable. Sure enough, England cracked. It was pure torture ...

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