Charity’s head coach ‘shocked’ after Sunderland council leader says it will not support ‘politically charged’ groups Anti-racism education in some schools will be scrapped after a city council now led by Reform UK ended its 30-year support for the charity Show Racism the Red Card. Gary Bennett, the former Sunderland AFC captain and the charity’s head coach, said he was “shocked and disappointed” that Nigel Farage’s party had withdrawn vital funding. Continue reading...

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Local officials say that unhoused people living inside security zones during the Olympics will probably have to move.

Football clubs are sponsored by corporations complicit in Israel’s apartheid and genocide. This is sportswashing.

Undergraduates say they are missing social events and missing meals to make ends meet

Drought and record heat have forced the Norfolk and Suffolk league to move kick-off to the end of August as the ground is deemed too dangerous to play on

Every World Cup is meant to have a legacy, this one could be the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins.

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Official statistics on football-related arrests, football banning orders, reported incidents at football matches and online hate and abuse connected to football.

With no national funding, England’s successful men’s amputee side is struggling to raise the £50,000 needed for November’s tournament in Mexico

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The football governing body presided over the most lucrative sporting event in history and is poised to net over $9 billion in revenue for 2026.

Of course fans roundly booed the president at the World Cup final: Damaging the integrity of anything he touches is true to the Trump brand.

Here’s all the resources you need to get clued up on the most polluting World Cup ever.

The biggest game in soccer is set for Sunday, when Argentina and Spain will meet in the World Cup final, held just outside of New York City. There’s just one problem — wildfire smoke now threatens the...

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