7 h. ago Man saved by pal after suffering cardiac arrest during walking football game

John McGee, 62, collapsed during a game at Toryglen and has recalled the moment "everything went black".

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27 h. ago VARs will intervene on second yellows and corners after football law changes

Players to have eight seconds to take goal-kicksIfab focused on limiting disruption of playFootball’s law-making body has backed plans to extend the use of the video assistant referee system, allowing it to intervene on second yellow cards and the awarding of corners, provided the process “does not slow the flow of play”.With the speed of the game in mind, the International Football Association Board (Ifab) also expanded the “countdown principle”, where goalkeepers have eight seconds to release the ball from their hands, to include the taking of goal-kicks and throw-ins. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago No. 1 Indiana tops final AP Top 25 football poll of season as Big Ten's title run reaches 3 straight

Indiana is No. 1 in the final Associated Press Top 25 after finishing a 16-0 season with a victory over Miami in the College Football Playoff championship game

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45 h. ago Trump gets thunderous reception at Miami vs Indiana college football championship game with Ivanka and granddaughter Kai

The crowd at the Hard Rock Stadium roared as Trump waved during The Star-Spangled Banner

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51 h. ago The dangerous precedent set by Senegal’s ‘shameful’ Afcon final walk

Comment: Senegal’s circus in the Afcon final will require an emphatic response from football’s leaders to prevent the game from falling into a state of lawlessness

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55 h. ago Trump announces plan to control college football schedule to protect Army

President teased an upcoming executive order that would force television networks to preserve a time slot and day for the annual rivalry game

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58 h. ago Join the Miguel Delaney: Inside Football newsletter and go beyond the game with exclusive insights

Packed with snippets of behind-the-scenes gossip and updates from Miguel Delaney's reporting trips, subscribers will have a backstage pass as he covers the 2025/2026 season, the 2026 World Cup and more

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4 d. ago How to watch FIFA's 'game of legends' as Gareth Bale, Didier Drogba and more return to pitch

Legends like Iker Casillas, Carles Puyol, Gareth Bale, Didier Drogba, and more will be reunited for the 2026 FIFA Legends Match in a bid to hype up this summer's World Cup

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6 d. ago Geopolitical football: Iran? Trump? How the game can stand strong in a fractured world

The 2026 World Cup is set to be a polarising event but, even if it will not be the first to be politically contentious, it will expose a growing uneaseFive months out from the World Cup the politics are impossible to avoid. There are concerns relating to one of the host countries, the US, with armed immigration officials roaming through its cities and visa restrictions ramped up against foreign visitors. One qualifying nation, Iran, is experiencing a public uprising against its leadership, with the regime attacking its citizens in response. Among other qualifiers there are concerns over democratic backsliding in Tunisia, ecological crimes in Ecuador and , in the future host country Saudi Arabia. And that’s just for starters.It sometimes feels as if this summer’s tournament, the one Gianni Infantino recently described as “the greatest show ever on planet Earth”, will serve as an inescapable reminder of the depressing state of the world in 2026. It could yet be an event that goes down...

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6 d. ago ‘A group of people decided to kill me’: Michel Platini on Fifa, Uefa and the fight to clear his name

Former Uefa president – caught between moving on and settling scores – talks candidly about his downfall, Infantino and the snakepit of the game’s governance“There are millions and millions of romantics in football,” Michel Platini says. He has been asked whether, after a decade frozen out of the game, its lustre has vanished for him. “Millions who share the ideas that I have. But in the end, it’s big business.”It is an industry whose peaks Platini scaled before, in one of football’s biggest falls from grace, it spat him out. He maintains he would have become Fifa president if he had not been banned from football over an alleged unlawful payment made to him in 2011, when he was running Uefa, by Sepp Blatter. The scandal led to a criminal case but both men were acquitted for a second time, definitively so, by a Swiss appeals court last year. Nothing hangs over Platini any more, bar a conviction that he was cheated. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Police chief behind Maccabi supporters ban is victim of ‘a witch hunt’ says local MP

Calls for the West Midlands Police chief behind a ban on Israeli football fans attending a game in the UK last year to step down are ‘a witch hunt’, a local MP has said.

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7 d. ago College football fans stunned as prices for two tickets to championship game climb over $20K – with parking costing $747

The Indiana Hoosiers, seeking their first national title, are in the CFP championship for the first time

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7 d. ago Home secretary says she has lost confidence in police chief behind Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban

Statement by Shabana Mahmood is blow to Craig Guildford’s chances of remaining West Midlands police chief constable UK politics live – latest updatesThe home secretary has said she has lost confidence in the West Midlands chief constable after a “damning” report into a ban on Israeli fans from a football game in Birmingham.The inquiry, which was ordered by Shabana Mahmood and carried out by the policing inspectorate His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary, found the force made a series of errors in how it gathered and handled intelligence. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago I am terrible at football – but love playing. Can I change my game completely in my mid

For fifteen years I have been devoted to the sport, but can still barely tackle or shoot. I decided to get a coach and give him the challenge of a lifetimeIf I told you I have played football for 15 years, you’d probably assume that I’m decent. Unfortunately, I am not. I have three left feet and a not-very-convincing shot on goal. Despite how many years I have put into the sport, these things show little to no improvement.I play football for the joy of it: the rush of the first whistle; the exhilaration of making a successful tackle or a clever pass; and the feeling of all fears and concerns melting away the moment the game starts. So until recently, the fact that I’m so bad at it occurred to me as, at worst, incidental. I grew up at a time when football was largely considered a men’s sport. In the 90s, there were about 80 girls’ football clubs in England (there are more than 12,000 now); there wasn’t a women’s premier league until 1994; and by the time I was in my 20s, boring jokes...

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8 d. ago The Adam Clery Football Column: Get a newsletter that unpacks the beautiful game’s absurdities and oddities

Offering witty insights and tactical deep-dives, Adam Clery’s new email offering makes sense (and fun) of football’s biggest talking points

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8 d. ago ‘A clear injustice’: PSG Women rail over points deduction in season of pain

Club furious after being sanctioned for paperwork error regarding Canada international Florianne JourdeParis Saint-Germain have lost only one league game all season yet are still only fifth in the Première Ligue. How is that possible?On Monday 22 December, just after the final league game of 2025, the French Football Federation issued a bombshell statement: three of PSG’s wins this season had been turned into defeats (0-3) because of a licensing issue regarding the Canada international Florianne Jourde. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Football transfer rumours: Liverpool and Chelsea eye Ramón? Gallagher to Spurs?

Today’s rumours need a bit of a stirMost footballers become famous for playing the game but others attract renown for not liking it – foremost among them is Arsenal’s Ben White. Accordingly, it would make sense were he to join David Moyes’s Everton, who are seeking to resolve a problematic right-back situation. The chance to follow in the footsteps of Tony Hibbert, typically a huge pull factor, is nullified because White presumably has no idea who he is.Elsewhere on Merseyside, it appears Liverpool have finally discovered the best way to improve a dodgy defence is not to buss hundreds of millions on attackers, but to have decent defenders. Consequently, they are looking at Como’s Jacobo Ramón – and so too are Chelsea, should the romance of being stockpiled with a 68-year contract prove too alluring to turn down. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Sidemen Charity Match 2026 date and venue CONFIRMED – here’s how to get tickets

THE SIDEMEN have announced their next charity match will take place at Wembley Stadium on April 18. The group of YouTubers have been organising an annual football game since 2016 that sees influencers battling it out in the name of charity. Last year's match in 2025 saw more than £4.7milion raised as the likes of...

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1 week ago Aberdeen’s game against Rangers should be off and the SPFL are a disgrace for not putting fans first

League chiefs don’t care about supporters’ safety – just puff pieces bigging up the attendances, writes Scott Burns

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1 week ago Football Daily | Celebrating the Premier League’s unbridled wildness and joyous puerility

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!There’s been much talk in recent years about moving Premier League games to various parts of the world that do not boast Premier League teams – Sheffield, Miami and so on – with the stated aim of spreading the gospel, had the gospel been stolen from Jesus and the Four Evangelists, to be bastardised and defiled, to be converted into folding green and then into geopolitical power and influence. By way of total non-sequitur, this year’s Geopolitics World Cup will be held in Donald Trump’s America. There was, of course, much anger at this ludicrous plan for many righteous reasons, then we all got back to enjoying the football as the ignoramiti knew we would, the game too chaotically, joyously puerile and affirming for its own and our own good. How can we possibly excise it from our souls when it bestows upon us the unbridled wildness of Wednesday’s behaviour, as it also did during the last round of midweek fixtures? The campaign for a f...

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