Manchester City’s 2-1 win over Arsenal in April 2026 became the most-watched Premier League match in US television history, averaging 2.6 million viewers across NBC, Peacock and Telemundo. That figure would have seemed unthinkable a decade ago, when English football was still a niche interest for most American sports fans. Anyone checking Premier League winner … Read more
Spain are world champions again. Ferran Torres scored the decisive goal in extra-time as La Roja defeated Argentina at New York New Jersey Stadium, with Rodri lifting the trophy and Luis de la Fuente extending his remarkable unbeaten record as Spain manager. Sourced via Unsplash – credit myprofittutor It might prove to be Lionel Messi’s … Read more
The Game That Would Be King: The Uncharted History of Soccer 800 – 1800 AD runs to 520 pages, contains 3,000 references, took three years to write, and hijacked my passion project, The Prime of her Death, a Melbourne thriller fusing purgatory and prime numbers. Prior to that, I had written four young adult fantasy novels, … Read more
The brace against Iraq came nearly three hours apart, either side of a weather delay that emptied Philadelphia of its noise for the best part of two hours. Kylian Mbappé came back out and scored again anyway. It took him level with Miroslav Klose’s all-time World Cup scoring record at 16, on his 100th cap … Read more
The World Cup heads to America in 2026, returning to North American soil with a sense of scale and spectacle that only the United States can deliver. Of the three host nations, America, Mexico, and Canada, the USMNT carry the greatest expectations, entering the tournament with a squad capable of making real noise on home … Read more