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Neymar personifies the 21st-century YouTube footballer

Neymar personifies the 21st-century YouTube footballer

The Brazilian star is as talented a marketer as he is a footballer

Mon Jun 24 2013 - 01:00

Sepp Blatter and upper echelon at Fifa well detached from people they should serve

Real world not part of pristine picture construed by football’s world governing body

Mon Jun 17 2013 - 06:00
Keane has won the struggle with me and many more sceptics

Keane has won the struggle with me and many more sceptics

Striker is a man of rare gifts, and for all we moan about his wastefulness, his selfishness, his maddening inconsistency, we’re going to miss him when he’s gone

Mon Jun 10 2013 - 12:00
Maximising the talent at his disposal has not been Trapattoni’s forte

Maximising the talent at his disposal has not been Trapattoni’s forte

Hoolahan, like McCarthy and Long before him, has been overlooked for too long

Mon Jun 03 2013 - 12:00
Robben kept coming back for more and got his final reward

Robben kept coming back for more and got his final reward

Outside the box: Ken Early column

Mon May 27 2013 - 13:00
Saturday may be Dortmund’s only shot at European glory

Saturday may be Dortmund’s only shot at European glory

There is nothing startlingly original in the way Klopp talks about football

Mon May 20 2013 - 12:00
Rooney and Moyes may not be that reconciled

Rooney and Moyes may not be that reconciled

The new Manchester United manager may not have forgiven the striker for the folly of youth

Mon May 13 2013 - 12:00
Ferguson: a man for all seasons in soccer

Ferguson: a man for all seasons in soccer

Manchester United manager combined acute emotional intelligence with an urge to dominate

Thu May 09 2013 - 06:00
Spirit of ‘Madridismo’ let down by both Mourinho and Perez

Spirit of ‘Madridismo’ let down by both Mourinho and Perez

‘He fell out with the Spanish players who are the favourites of the crowd and he jammed his finger into Tito Vilanova’s eye. ’

Mon May 06 2013 - 13:00
Van Persie gave Arsenal fans moments that money can’t buy

Van Persie gave Arsenal fans moments that money can’t buy

Arsenal fans may cling to the optimistic implications of the Ewing Theory but it’s been a season of bleak anonymity

Mon Apr 29 2013 - 12:00
Incisors and incisiveness, welcome to the world of Luis Suarez

Incisors and incisiveness, welcome to the world of Luis Suarez

Liverpool knew what they were getting when they signed the Urugayan striker

Mon Apr 22 2013 - 08:45
Bundesliga über alles? German industry bankrolls club success

Bundesliga über alles? German industry bankrolls club success

For the first time since the Champions League started admitting more than one team from each country, two German sides have made the semi-finals

Mon Apr 15 2013 - 13:00
Why the fans don’t have anything to sing about as they sit in their seats

Why the fans don’t have anything to sing about as they sit in their seats

A 1960s crowd sang songs, a 2010s crowd films itself

Mon Apr 08 2013 - 12:00

Martin O’Neill: from a human exclamation mark to a despondent figure

Just as he evolved towards a more subdued personal style, he found himself managing the first truly bad team of his career

Mon Apr 01 2013 - 10:44
Lucky general Trapattoni hasn’t met his Waterloo just yet

Lucky general Trapattoni hasn’t met his Waterloo just yet

It seems there’s an invisible hand of fate guiding the Italian manager these days, writes Ken Early

Mon Mar 25 2013 - 06:00
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