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
Watch a soccer match in 2026 and compare it to the earliest footage we have, and it looks like an entirely different sport. The casual viewer assumes that’s the result of a higher quality kit, the professionalisation of the game, the freakish athleticism of the modern player, the list goes on. Yes, these points are … Read more
Football became a game of strategy, a battle for control of every blade of grass on the pitch. Today’s modern coaches are taking the playing field as if it were a chessboard, blending players’ physical limitations with geometric precision. It is through understanding this shift in tactics that we can better understand how many teams … Read more