theguardian.comadded August 2026
Football | The Guardianby Dominic Booth20 Aug 2026
After signing Aaron Wan-Bissaka in 2019, Manchester United’s PR machine boasted they had scouted 804 right-backs before landing on the Crystal Palace player.
Football | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press19 Aug 2026
Young Socceroo Alessandro Circati has become the latest Australian international to be snapped up in a money-spinning European transfer, as he hailed his move from Parma to Benfica as a...
Football | The Guardianby Louise Taylor19 Aug 2026
Guardian writers’ predicted position: 17th (NB: this is not necessarily Louise Taylor’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 12th Prospects As David Hopkinson...
Football | The Guardianby Scott Murray19 Aug 2026
ROSEBUD In the 1941 RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury repertory theatre production Citizen Kane, Orson Welles essayed a man who began as a whirlwind of prolific energy, only to spectacularly fizzle out...
Football | The Guardianby John Duerden19 Aug 2026
In November 2001, the first Japanese goalkeeper to play English league football conceded a goal within the first minute of his debut.
Football | The Guardianby Jamie Jackson19 Aug 2026
Guardian writers’ predicted position: 5th (NB: this is not necessarily Jamie Jackson’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 3rd Prospects The information at the...
Football | The Guardianby Firdose Moonda19 Aug 2026
Cameroon became only the fourth country to lift the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) title following Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa, and only the third to have both a men’s and...
Football | The Guardianby Leander Schaerlaeckens19 Aug 2026
Mohamed Salah plays in Turkey now. So do Romelu Lukaku and Leandro Trossard and Leroy Sané and Nathan Aké. Mason Greenwood and N’Golo Kanté and Dusan Vlahovic, too.
Football | The Guardianby Guardian sport19 Aug 2026
“Birmingham’s August Priske scored the only goal at Swansea in the League Cup on 8 August. Can you think of any other examples of players scoring in their namesake months?” wonders Paul Tiffen.
Football | The Guardianby Sid Lowe18 Aug 2026
By the time Flight PTN27B started its descent into El Prat a bit before 8pm on Monday evening, a small crowd had gathered by the terminal doors, waiting for it to land.
Football | The Guardianby Sam Cunningham18 Aug 2026
Perhaps, in hindsight, it was always going to end this way. As some of the world’s wealthiest investors scrambled to find funds after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine set a series of dominoes...
Football | The Guardianby Agence France-Presse18 Aug 2026
Senegal have appointed France’s 1998 World Cup winner Patrick Vieira as head coach, the country’s football federation announced, succeeding Pape Thiaw, who was dismissed in the wake of their World...
Football | The Guardianby Daniel Harris18 Aug 2026
Even in the hyperreal world of football, there are few characters more compelling, more polarising, or more everything than José Mourinho, the best and worst of public him on full display in a new...
Football | The Guardianby Sid Lowe17 Aug 2026
“The poor kid couldn’t believe what had happened; none of us could have if we’d just done what he had just done,” said Álvaro Mantilla, Racing Santander’s captain in the match they had longed for...
Football | The Guardianby Suzanne Wrack17 Aug 2026
Emilie Joramo has long had her sights set on the Women’s Super League, but she held herself back from pushing for a move over from Scandinavia – until now.
Football | The Guardianby Max Rushden15 Aug 2026
“He’s not that kind of player” is perhaps the greatest of the co-commentators’ meaningless banalities.
Football | The Guardianby Guardian sport12 Aug 2026
“Which footballer has played for the most clubs?” asks Paul Gage. Surprisingly, throughout the more than two decades of the Knowledge, this question has not been answered before.
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