Money talks in football. It attracts the best managers, buys the best players – it even helps bring the game back from a global pandemic. It supposedly leads to glory and joy. For some of the world’s smaller sides, it ...
This is not intended as a piece of whataboutery or a comparison with the scars and the significance of actual, forced, seagoing, murderous European slavery. This is not some ghastly race to find the greater horror. It is simply to ...
To all MPs in parliament, On a week that would have opened Euro 2020, I wanted to reflect back to 27 May 2016, when I stood in the middle of the Stadium of Light in Sunderland having just broken the ...
Gary Neville has warned football still needs to take a giant leap forward to tackle “the distress and discrimination that we don’t see” – and urged the game to deliver real structural change and not just lofty ...
From the moment Colin Kaepernick first took a knee during the national anthem to call attention to police brutality and systemic racism before a San Francisco 49ers preseason game back in 2016, he stood alone while the meaning of his ...
“Purpose over profit” was one of the key messages delivered by UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin at the latest UEFA Congress in Amsterdam. At the core of this message is the organisation’s commitment to harnessing the power of football to help a ...
As part of Manchester United’s commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, the club has launched IGNORED, a new campaign to raise awareness of the importance of talking about mental health. The IGNORED ...
Adidas are partnering with Stonewall FC, London’s first-ever gay men’s football club. Founded in 1991, Stonewall FC have now gone on to become the world’s most successful LGBTQI+ football club having won 20 international trophies. For 30 years, the club have been ...
Sport needs to have a “clear-sighted and honest” conversation about race, and how it can do more to help black, Asian and ethnically mixed communities be more active and involved, a major new campaign by Sport England will ...
Football is one of the most followed sports in today’s society. The Beautiful Game is so powerful that can bring together people from all sections of the society, irrespective of their gender, race, social status and physical ability. This year, the Malta ...
