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The football season is back underway and with it the same old brouhaha as Luton and Boro proved at Kenilworth Rd. Penalty given for a dive outside the box? Check! Penalty ballooned into the stand? Check! Fans goading penalty taker with a "waaaay!" Check! Good to be back.

Bury FC’s threatened expulsion from the EFL rumbles on and should haunt all fans.  While the headlines focus on the club’s woes, those who follow these things closely know the blame lies with owner Steve Dale, his predecessors, and the ineffective rules which failed to prevent this on-going catastrophe. A football club is more than its owner but players, club staff and fans are being punished for ...

The Away Fans Survey, the largest ongoing study of the away fan experience in England and Wales, is back again and we're after your help once more. Since it began back in 2012, more than 20,000 of you have taken the time to give us your opinions as part of our Away Fans Survey. We collate ratings on everything from the price of matchday pies to the position of the away sector and everything in-bet...

While the excitement and celebration of this weekend's Football United event has been attracting the attention of the LGBT+ community and the media, it may perplex some football fans about why events like this are needed, and why they are important. I’ve heard some say there’s no need for such spotlighting on minority groups, ‘We’re all just football fans aren’t we?’. While that’s exactly what we...

Chelsea winger Pedro scored a delightful little goal against an Austrian side owned by a large soft drink brand in a largely meaningless pre-season friendly tournament this week. His smart finish from Ross Barkley’s cross put the West London side 4-1 up. Well done that man.

You may have seen the Premier League’s recent PR efforts to head off (some would say inevitable) complaints about the debut of VAR this coming season. Mike Riley, former ref and managing director of the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), was in the media earlier this month saying VARs will not “re-referee” games and that the technology won’t disrupt the flow of the game. With publi...

Atlanta United's Josef Martinez is And finally's class clown this week by way of this truly imbecilic penalty. Luckily for him he redeemed himself by scoring a 92nd minute winner - but hopefully the Venezuelan has learned a valuable lesson about show boating.

We regularly document the incompetence of professional footballers with And finally... but this week LA FC's Mohamed El Munir shows us that extreme competence, with a fantastic recovering tackle, is just as memorable. His heroics kept the score down to 1-0, and LA would eventually come back to beat Houston Dynamo 3-1.