What a Footballer’s Diet Actually Looks Like
What a footballer’s diet actually looks like bears little resemblance to its reputation. Professional football nutrition is imagined at two extremes the chicken and broccoli…
What a Footballer’s Diet Actually Looks Like
What a footballer’s diet actually looks like bears little resemblance to its reputation. Professional football nutrition is imagined at two extremes the chicken and broccoli cliché at one end, exotic…
How Concussion Protocols Changed Football
For most of the game’s history a head injury was a thing to be shaken off. A player who was knocked out might be back on within minutes, smelling salts…
How Concussion Protocols Changed Football
For most of the game’s history a head injury was a thing to be shaken off. A player who was knocked out might be back on within minutes, smelling salts…
How Women’s Football Kit Is Designed Differently
For most of the women’s game’s modern history, women’s football kit was not designed for it. Shirts were cut on men’s patterns in smaller sizes, shorts were whatever the men’s…
Football Kit Technology Explained: Fabric, Fit and Performance
A modern football shirt weighs less than a paperback and costs more than most of the clothes in your wardrobe. The gap between those two facts is where all the…
Why Players Lose Sharpness After an International Break
Managers complain about international breaks with a consistency that makes it sound like a convenient excuse. It is not. The fortnight is one of the few periods in a season…
How Five Substitutes Changed Football
For most of the game’s modern history a manager had three changes to make and ninety minutes to use them. That constraint shaped everything about how the last half hour…
What a Footballer’s Warm-Up Is Actually Doing
The pre-match warm-up is the most watched part of football that nobody watches. Supporters arrive during it, players go through it in front of a half-empty stadium, and most people…
Football Kits Online: How Fit and Weight Change the Way a Shirt Performs
Most kit descriptions tell you very little. A listing will mention moisture management and a slim cut, give you a size chart, and leave it there. What it will not…
Why Hamstring Injuries Dominate Football
Ask a club’s medical staff which injury they see most and the answer is almost always the same. Hamstring strains account for a larger share of injuries in professional football…