Nick Miller We’ve cast our discerning eye over the Premier League home kits, so now it’s time for the aways. This is where kit designers get a little loose, try some things, use this an outlet for their more outre ideas that have possibly been percolating from their experimental days at fashion school. Which means […]
Carl Anka The Premier League returns today (Friday), bringing thrills, spills, refereeing controversy and, hopefully, some high-quality football. As is tradition, our team of writers at The Athletic have created a comprehensive series of previews for 2024-25. Readers can also enjoy our most recent roundtable, where several of us made our big predictions for the […]
Anantaajith Raghuraman The Premier League returns tomorrow and a lot has happened since the 2023-24 season drew to a close. Chelsea have continued collecting players like there is no tomorrow, while Liverpool await the first signing of the Arne Slot era. Manchester United seem to have caught fans off guard by taking a sensible approach […]
The Athletic UK Staff Is this the season Mikel Arteta’s obsessive methods take Arsenal to the top? Will Arne Slot sink or swim as Jurgen Klopp’s successor at Liverpool? Can an off-field revolution at Manchester United transform their fortunes on the pitch? Or will Manchester City simply make it five titles in a row? Also, […]
Michael Walker Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 40 miles from the Atlantic Ocean. On Church Street, they have been serving beer in Blakes of the Hollow since 1887 and a dark atrium upstairs in the old, atmospheric bar seemed a suitable place for Gerry ‘Wee Scone’ Connolly to nudge a document across a heavy wooden table. Here […]
The Athletic Staff With the new Premier League season getting underway on Friday, The Athletic has selected a young player to watch from each of the 20 top-flight clubs. Some of them you will have heard of, others not — but you can expect all of them to impress this season and kick on in […]
The Athletic Staff Welcome to the latest edition of the Transfer DealSheet, your weekly guide to what is happening in the summer window. Our team of dedicated writers, including Adam Leventhal and David Ornstein, will take you inside the market to explain the deals being worked on, the players who could arrive and the ones […]
Michael Walker Some will disagree with this geographic categorisation, but for the purpose of this article, ‘the North’ begins at Sheffield. Stoke City are included in the Midlands and Watford counts as being in London, as it’s inside the city’s M25 orbital motorway. Clubs such as Ipswich Town, Portsmouth and Southampton, Reading, Swansea City and […]
Nick Miller A new Premier League season is nearly here, which means only one thing: it’s time for footballers to stand moodily, staring straight ahead, possibly somewhere with artistic lighting and some extremely jerky camerawork, modelling their team’s new kit for the season. A relatively new phenomenon has been clubs revealing the new kits to […]