There were more than 1,000 objections to the proposals, but it is hoped a compromise can be reached.

Football’s pitch markings are taken for granted, as you’d expect considering they’ve been this way for 86 years in the world’s most popular sport. But those markings are, in various ways, quite ...

Brighton Open Air Theatre says football pitches planned nearby would disrupt performances.

The role of the “inverted full-back” has become familiar in European football. More than a decade has passed since Pep Guardiola first rolled out the tactic at Bayern Munich, and there have been many ...

This is part of the How Football Works series, a piece-by-piece look at the mechanics of the game If last weekend’s north London derby felt like an exceptionally good match — and it was, at least ...

British journalist Ryan Herman still remembers the first football ground he ever visited as a kid in 1978 — the sights, the sounds and yes, the score. Liverpool beat West Ham United 2-0 on that day at ...

Footballers in a growing village have a new £1m state-of-the-art 3G pitch to play on. The pitch at the Jubilee Field in ...