Italian footballers to take a 25% pay cut if they get relegated from the top flight? Can you imagine the stampede before the end of the season to get out of a club before there drop?

Everton have only averaged 50,000 once in their history, in 1962-63. Record crowds in 2025-26?

Sad to hear of Peter McParland's passing.
Last member of the 1957 Villa side to win
the FA Cup. An impressive career: 34 caps
for NI, FA Cup and FL Cup medals, played
in World Cup 1958.

Non-League Notebook: Enjoying a season of failure MY local non-league team, Hitchin Town, have been relegated from the Southern League Premier Central in really quite disastrous fashion. The margin between themselves and failure was 15 points, a d…

Relegation is not the end of the world,
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Another setback for MUFC, but they didn't just let in four, they scored three.

It says everything about the modern game when the prize money for winning a competition dominates the narrative rather than the achievement of lifting the silverware. Manchester United could win the Europa, but the talk is of the £ 100 million a season in the Champions League earns a club.

An all-England final it could be, but it can only save one club from a miserable 2025 IT is looking increasingly likely the UEFA Europa League final in Bilbao will be between Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United, which will be the sixth time two English clubs have met in a major …

If Spurs and Man United do reach the Europa final, it will be the sixth all-English European final:
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Had to feel sorry for Harry Kane yesterday when Leipzig grabbed that last-ditch equaliser #Bundesliga

Farewell, Goodison GAME OF THE PEOPLE visited Goodison Park for the last time when Everton played Chelsea on December 22, 2024. It’s an old-school stadium as we all know, but there was something special about t…

A tribute to #goodisonpark the home of #everton gameofthepeople.com/2024/12/23/f...

Here we go again – Super League for Christmas JUST WHEN we thought it was safe to go back in the water, the shark is circling its prey once more. The European Super League, rejected twice – or is it three? – has tabled a new concept and this t…

It is pantomime season again #unifyleague #europeansuperleague gameofthepeople.com/2024/12/18/h...

50 years ago, the great Dutch side were beaten by Franz Beckenbauer and co. Read about it in book....

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New grounds for old: Why clubs may have to sacrifice ancestral homes THE TRADITIONAL image of English football, and one that many fans still cling to, is of an arena with cow shed-type stands, floodlights and a flat capped audience with chimneys, terraced houses and…

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The storm above Swindon and what it could mean SWINDON TOWN gave English football one of its most heartwarming images of the 1960s – Don Rogers and his teammates running around Wembley with the Football League Cup in 1968-69. They beat Arsenal …

The situation at Swindon Town. gameofthepeople.com/2024/12/10/t...

European Round-up: Serie A lead changes, Zagreb crisis, Spurs let it slip, PSG held ATALANTA have taken over at the top of Serie A following their 2-1 win over AC Milan in Bergamo on Friday night. The winning goal was scored by Ademola Lookman (pictured), his eighth in the league …

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How long till #mufc get rid of Onana? His shelf life has to be limited.

Soccer City: Liverpool, England’s most passionate location? ONE of the indications of the importance of a football club to a city is the length of time it takes to spot a reference to that club when you depart the main railway station. In the case of Liverp…

Is Liverpool the most passionate city in English football?

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The FA have reservations about Saudi Arabia's human rights record and are thinking over whether they will endorse the World Cup bid. They will, of course.

I was at Anfield yesterday and it was impressive. You would, however. Think this was a one club city.

Luke something from a TV game show.

FIFA debacle 3.0: This time for Saudi SO MANY people around the world are disconcerted about Saudi Arabia being handed the 2034 World Cup on a plate, yet on December 11, the Kingdom’s status as host nation will be confirmed. It is unli…

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European Round-up: Player collapses in Florence, Barca slip, Kane injured, Sporting shock THERE was drama of the wrong kind in Florence as Fiorentina’s Edoardo Bove collapsed on the pitch in the game with Inter Milan. The match was suspended in the 16th minute with the score 0-0. B…

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Spurs-Roma game was excellent. But Mr Levy, do you really need to charge £ 10 for bagdrop - exploitation around a rule you have made for your stadium. A4 bag is designed to ensure you don't bring your own food or drink into the ground. Disgusting. #Tottenham #EuropaLeague #Spurs

Copa Libertadores: Botafogo’s lone star nearly men face the Atlético rooster BOTAFOGO and Atlético Mineiro travel to Buenos Aires for the Copa Libertadores final on November 30, the fourth all-Brazil clash in the six years that South America’s premier club competition has b…

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1001 Floodlit Dreams A Aberdeen 1983-84:  Jim Leighton, Stewart McKimmie, Alex McLeish, Willie Miller, Doug Rougvie, Neil Simpson, Gordon Strachan, Doug Bell, Neale Cooper, Ian Angus, Peter Weir, Billy Stark, Mark McGh…

Want to know about the most notable football teams in history, see our ongoing 1001 Floodlit Dreams section
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Are Botafogo blowing it again? Palmeiras are top in Brazil now while Botafogo are drawing games. They have the Copa Libertadores on November 30 against Atlético Mineiro. Is this affecting their league form?

Listening to MU fans moaning about the 1-1 draw with Ipswich. These people expected an overnight miracle with the arrival of Amorim. Do they not realise their team is average and that it will take a couple of transfer windows for significant change? Will they give Amorim the time he needs? #ManUtd

Tottenham were very good this evening, but something is very wrong in the City team. It needs an overhaul or a new approach. City are in crisis right now but they will get out of it - they have too much power and resources to let it ferment for too long. #mancity #guardiola #tottenham

River of dreams: Argentina’s clubs may get a new model ARGENTINA have a rather eccentric president in Javier Milei, but he is a committed follower of football. He’s a Boca Juniors fan and wants to see all Argentinian clubs become more competitive with …

Can Argentinian clubs be transformed into businesses in the way president #javiermilei wants them to be? #argentina #southamerica #footballcapitalism

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Rúben’s the man and this time United have to get it right THERE will be sceptics who believe Manchester United have merely responded to the noise, but the appointment of Rúben Amorim represents an ambitious and imaginative decision by a club on the brink …

Amorim is in the house, now #MUFC have to give him a fair chance and forget about the past. #amorim

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Why are so many anti Alex Scott? Her knowledge is no different than most pundits & those that call out her diction should listen to ex-pros. Maybe it's her pursuit of "celebrity" status. Is it because she's a woman? I doubt it, as G Logan & to a lesser extent, C Balding would both be accepted. #MOTD