Section shelf · 13 pieces
The season desk 2026-27
Matchweek editions, the transfer window, the living trackers and the big questions — dated honestly, archived when the moment passes.
- Can Ronaldo score 1,000 career goals?978 and counting: the living tracker for football's loneliest round number — verified totals, the rate, the re
- Deadline day: don’t even try to make sense of itMonaco needed a sale, Chelsea a replacement, Everton a striker. By 23:00 on deadline day all three had nothing
- Elliot Anderson: Man City’s £135m Rodri Replacement ExplainedRodri left for Barcelona; City answered with a reported £135m for Elliot Anderson. What he brings, what the fe
- Premier League Matchweek 1: Every Result, ReviewedTen results, ten reads: the weekend that gave Brighton a statement, Hull a shock and Chelsea a new-manager bou
- Premier League Matchweek 2: Fixtures, Kick-off Times & PicksTen fixtures, four days, and kick-off times that read the same in Lagos as in London. Every Matchweek 2 game,
- Premier League Matchweek 4 preview — fixtures, the real table, the storylinesThe desk’s first live edition of 2026-27: verified Matchweek 4 fixtures, the table as of Matchweek 3, and the
- Premier League Transfer Tracker: Every Big Done DealThe summer window closed at 23:00 BST on 1 September 2026; City landed Enzo Fernández for a British record-equ
- The weekend ahead — Matchweek 4 edition (archive)Archive edition, written 10 September 2026: that weekend’s verified fixtures across the six competitions with
- What did the 2026 World Cup change about football?Spain's one-goal tournament, Messi's farewell, Mbappé's record and the first 48-team edition — the tournament'
- Who are the best football players in the world in 2026?Our ranking, our method, printed in full — a World Cup champion, a Golden Ball, an all-time World Cup scorer a
- Who will win the 2026 Ballon d'Or?The ceremony moves to London on 26 October. The World Cup rewrote the shortlist — here is the race as it actua
- Who will win the 2026-27 Champions League?PSG are back-to-back champions chasing history, Arsenal carry Budapest's ache, and a promoted Italian club alr
- Who will win the 2026-27 Premier League?Three matchweeks in: City and Arsenal are perfect, Hull City are third, and the champions are chasing. The rac