The Best of Football Writing in 2014 Every year since 2011, A Football Report has published an annual Best of Football Writing list.
What was once a way for us to simply appreciate and remember the preceding 12 months has grown into a full-fledged community activity, with every corner of the world submitting their favourite articles, photographs, films, and football-inspired designs.
The Search Is On: Help Us Find The Best of Football Writing in 2014 2014 had everything. It came and left us with a blur. Spectrums of all varieties were filled end-to-end. Of good and bad. Of wonderstrikes and dubious misses. Every surprise seemed to be matched by an inevitability.
The Tyne-Wear Derby By Kristan Heneage
Paolo Di Canio is an insatiable reader. The Italian ingests books at a frightening rate, and when he moved to the north east of England to take up the manager's chair at Sunderland, he made a point of collecting a variety of history books reflecting the local area.
King Abidal By Zito Madu
Conquer the fear of death and you will know the death of fear.
A few days ago,the King —Thierry Henry— retired from football. Today, another French royal follows suit.
Alone in a Crowd Photos and Words by Nathen McVittie, writing from Dublin after the Ireland-United States friendly
In a stadium that holds 52,000 people, you would expect to feel surrounded.
Football Icons, by David Diehl For all the attention that football pays to the future - whether it's the next match, the next transfer window or the next major international tournament - at its root, football is a sport obsessed with its own mythology.
One Final Cup Final: Landon Leaves on Top The air feels different for a cup final. In these matches, only one side leaves as a champion, with their names etched onto silver and into history. The other simply leaves.
Cristiano xAzulejo The pride of old and contemporary Portugal collide.Designer Charis Tsevis created a series of Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired mosaic illustrations based on the great Portuguese tradition of Azulejo.
Unpredictable is Underrated: Appreciating Thierry Henry Some things - albeit in increasingly rare quantity - transcend time.
Some artists find ways to extend their craft, their respective careers, into moments that make others stop.
64 games. 64 seconds. - An Animation By Ruckspiel The football collective Ruckspiel decided to create a video installation called Playplan, capturing the 2014 World Cup.
Colombians, Stars & Stripes at the Cottage: Capturedby Nathen McVittie Friday nights at Fulham's Craven Cottage are normally as quiet as you can find in London.
LEAKED: FIFA Ethics Report Revealed Word spread across global media outlets Wednesday night that details of FIFA's investigation on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process would be released the following day. While these reports included a general indication that FIFA would absolve Qatar and Russia of any misbehavior or financial malfeasance in a summary statement, exact details were left aside, as a full copy of independent investigator Michael J.
Where Is Football: Where Local Is International This week we go international. As clubs send their stars abroad, we look local. But local for you? That's global for the rest of the world.
The Road to Canada We're now just seven months away from the seventh edition of the FIFA Women's World Cup, but tournament organizers in Canada have had more than just football on the brain recently.
A Sense of Life Around The Game: Non-League in Poland by Przemek Niciejewski Far from full stadiums, there are onlookers of every kind watching the wondrous non-league football around Poland.
