Investigations
Debt, dividends and the stadium that was sold twice
How a ground can be collateral for two loans at once, and who noticed.
// Section
Long reads
The stories that need more than a scoreline: reported features from the beat.
Follow Long reads
6stories this month
5reporters on the beat
// Latest in this section
More stories
Long reads
Inside the press: how a back four defends 40 yards up the pitch
Freeze-frame by freeze-frame, our analyst walks through the six seconds that decide whether a high line…
Reportage
The last terrace: a season standing up
Twenty-five clubs, one pilot licence and a generation of fans who never stood at a match.…
Basketball
Why Ridgeway’s drop coverage keeps losing the corner
The big stays home, the guard goes under, and the weak-side shooter has all night.
Interviews
Elena Vasquez on courage, July and the squad you actually have
You cannot coach courage into a squad in April. You buy it in July or you…
History
The final that invented the modern press box
Before 1974 reporters stood. After it, they had a telephone each — and the match report…
Reportage
A week inside the last family-owned kit factory on the continent
Four looms, thirty-one staff, and a contract that ends in June.
Long reads
Closing line value: the only metric that survives a bad week
Everything else is noise dressed as evidence — and the clubs know it.