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A map created by Big Think shows the clear geographical slant of football fandom in the British capital: the centres of gravity for each ‘fanland’ tend to be around the home grounds of each team.

Who are the 22 men whose votes will decide where the 2022 World Cup is held? And how are they likely to vote? Neil Walker investigates.

The English bid for the 2018 FIFA World Cup is starting to feel grubbier and grubbier, writes The Guardian’s Paul Hayward, and are horsetrading and acquiescence a price worth paying for an event England have not won since 1966?

Who are the footballers who shout “look ate me!”? Who Ate all the Pies has a list.

Have Spurs finally turned a corner and caught up to Arsenal?

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, and that’s exactly what the USA’s Major League Soccer is doing, writes Slate’s Brian Phillips.

Gay players do not come out for reasons of physical safety or that they are not emotionally ready to face the abuse of thousands of vitriolic fans, writes The Independent’s Musa Okwonga, but there is further nuance to this issue of which we should take note.

Why do elite soccer players (and their managers) seemingly find it impossible to remain faithful for more than ten seconds?

Rooney’s career has always resembled a teenage melodrama, writes Slate’s Brian Phillips

Tottenham striker Gareth Bale has been in incredible form in 2010 — thus stirs the rumours mill that he is leaving. Is is true? And can the Spurs capitalise on the Welshman whilst they still have him?

Farcical refereeing decisions has been a feature of football for many years. Here is 101 Goals’ list of the 10 most farcical refereeing decisions ever. In chronological order.

Farcical financial situations at Liverpool and Portsmouth, not to mention the ticking financial time-bombs of several other top flight teams, are illustrating what is wrong with Britain’s top flight football competition.

Liverpool fans are sceptical, but American businessman John Henry once turned the vaunted Boston Red Sox around — and he’ll do the same to Liverpool, writes Sports Illustrated’s Dan Shaughnessy.

In last Thursday’s match between Italy and Serbia in Genoa, football’s ugly cousin, the riot, again reared its head. Slate’s Brian Phillips investigates the history of the relationship between riot thuggery and football.

Australia is banking on its proximity to Asia to win the right to host football’s World Cup. But that could in fact be held against it, writes Matthew Hall from the United States.

Just a few years ago the Socceroos were the darlings of the Australian sporting world, now Australia’s bid for the 2022 World Cup is at risk, Frank Lowy’s FFA is in trouble and the likelihood of success in South Africa is slim.

Soccer is big business, with teams increasingly becoming brands in their own right. Forbes names the clubs kicking the most financial goals around the world.

Argentinean soccer player Lionel Messi is getting a rep as the best footballer in the world, yet gets barely any love in his home country. So how will Maradona — now coach of the Argentinean team — deal with his title-pincher?

The best thing for a goal keeper to do during a penalty shoot out? Stand still in the middle and don’t dive. But everyone’s too scared to do it. Serkan Ozturk explores the psychology behind the penalty shoot out.

Argentina football legend and coach Diego Maradona has had to undergo plastic surgery after being attacked by his own dog.

Government sources have floated the idea that, should Labour be voted back into office, they would wade in on behalf of the honest supporter to shake up the FA and Premier League.

Britain’s Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, was apparently so saddened by news that footballer David Beckham has snapped his Achilles tendon, she has written an entire poem about it: Achilles (for David Beckham).