Jose Mourinho’s widely predicted return to Chelsea is confirmed, with the club announcing it is “delighted” to announce his appointment as new first team manager.
On Monday the most valuable match in football will take place – a clash between Crystal Palace and Watford for promotion, and the riches that come with it, to the Premier League.
It’s the last big game of the 2012-13 football season – no, not the Champions League final. Malcolm Boughen looks at the successes and failures among teams who have made it to the Premier League.
With Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund contesting club football’s top prize this weekend, Germany’s football set-up is being cited as the model for other countries. But is it really that good?
David Beckham says he is “fortunate to have realised his dreams” as he bows out of professional football.
Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson, British football’s most successful manager, is retiring after 26 years. Everton’s David Moyes and Jose Mourinho of Real Madrid are front-runners to succeed him.
When is a goal not a goal? Sore question for German fans during the 1966 World Cup. But will new technology finally solve the question? Jordan Jarrett-Bryan reports.
Sunderland FC is one of the biggest clubs in the world, in the money leagues. Which is why it can afford brave brand decisions. But how will the appointment of Paolo Di Canio wash with its social justice partners?
Rangers were among the world’s most successful football clubs. The old Rangers company no longer exists, replaced by a new company, plying their trade in the third division. Alex Thomson explains why.
As the Football Association reels from the John Terry affair, John Anderson examines whether the FA’s new complex can help shape the next generation of footballers.
Fifa’s former head of security tells Channel 4 News that a World Cup match has been under active investigation and that corruption is so widespread it’s affecting football around the globe.
Alex Thomson
Try as I might it is next to impossible to puncture the extraordinary secrecy surrounding the First Tier Tax Tribunal where the fate of Rangers is to be determined.
Fan ownership, cheap tickets and the coolest club in Europe. In the second in his “More than a club” series on modern football, Andrew McFadyen looks at what the Premier League can learn from Germany.
As football becomes more and more commercialised, Andrew McFadyen looks at how fans from Scotland to Croatia are beginning to fight back against big business and show them who is boss.
After England’s defeat in the quarter finals of Euro 2012, Channel 4 News looks at why the national team tend to disappoint when it really matters.