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 ...

The goalkeeper is the only player allowed to use his hands. He usually wears the number 1 shirt. His mission is clear: stop the ball from crossing the goal line. But in modern football, the goalkeeper ...

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 ...