When watching a football match, the referee running around on the pitch with the players often gets the headlines, however did you know that there’s a whole team of other officials supporting them? In this article, we discuss the names and roles of the other match officials involved in a football match, so if you’ve…

In the modern game, footballers can have up to three football matches within one week. So how does this work when it comes to keeping their kits clean and fresh for the start of each match? Do footballers wash their kit? Do they wear a new shirt every single match? We answer these questions in…

There are numerous press stories that shame football players for drinking alcohol, and these can skew our judgement around the relationship between footballers and alcohol. Footballers drink alcohol for similar reasons as everybody else – to socialise with friends or family, or to help them relax when they are under pressure. There are also reasons…