A 47-year-old man, who was arrested after the Premier League’s season opener on Friday due to alleged racist abuse, has been ...

So, to differentiate the two, the game played under Football Association rules came to be known as association football. Not the most creative name, but it stuck! According to Encyclopaedia ...

And the EFL itself gives each Championship club £3.92million from its central income, with £950,000 going to each League One club and £640,000 to teams in League Two. OK, that’s the here and now.

Football, or soccer, has been around for centuries with its roots dating back over 2,000 years ago, but it was not until 1863 that England’s Football Association (the FA) cemented the sport’s ...

The XFL averaged 627,000 viewers. Tangent Another spring football league called the United Football League played between 2009 and 2012, before it abruptly ceased operations during the 2012 season.

The Tin Shed came from Feethams, where Darlington used to play before they went bust in 2012 and were punished harshly by the Football Association with a four-division demotion.