Red Wine and Arepas: How football is becoming Venezuela’s religion
There is no short answer for why I decided to write a book on Venezuelan football but I can pinpoint the exact moment I [...]
TFB Meets: The Grass Roots Football Coach
The Grass Roots Football Coach has been coaching football worldwide for 15 years and has experience of coaching at [...]
TFB Meets: Paul Thomas Bell
Paul Bell is a football presenter, writer and patron of Back Onside - a sports-based charity supporting those affected by [...]
Introducing… our ‘Feel-Good Football’ series
Football is wonderful. Here at The Football Brief, we aim to focus on the positive aspects of the beautiful game. When football [...]
Top 10: English players abroad
Some of England's finest young players continue to leave these shores in search of first-team football. Here is a list of the top [...]
Top 10: Things all neutral fans love to see
“There’s a dog on the pitch!” Occasionally, things happen on a football pitch which give the fans a strange sort of joy - whether it's an animal on the [...]
The Coach: Part 2 – Philosophy and Player Ownership
The first session of my FA Level 1 in Coaching Football is now done. It ran from 9am until 5pm. It was a lot to take in over the full [...]
The Burnley Slayer: A fan’s story behind David Dunn’s 95th minute equaliser
One of the best live matches I’ve ever been to was a 1-1 draw. When you put it like that, it doesn’t sound too impressive. Although that would [...]
The Coach: Part 1 – Signing up
Everybody knows what happened in the dying minutes of extra-time at Wembley on Sunday. Since then, many have flip-flopped their opinion like [...]
Gamesmanship at the heart of the Chelsea debacle
Everybody knows what happened in the dying minutes of extra-time at Wembley on Sunday. Since then, many have flip-flopped their opinion like [...]