Topic: Football

Football covers the professional and grassroots game across the UK and around the world, from domestic leagues and cup competitions to international tournaments, transfers and the people who run the sport.

It matters because football reaches far beyond the pitch: it shapes local communities, national identity, business and public debate. Coverage follows results and performance alongside the decisions, finances and governance that affect the game’s future.

  • The history of brilliantly terrible World Cup video games

    As football fans revel in the real world tournament, its digital counterparts continue to stumble in capturing the ​hyped up ​atmosphere• Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI come with a warning to all football fans: if you’ve been enjoying the World Cup enough to think, “I’d like to re-enact this…

  • Tech Now

    Shiona McCallum visits Fifa HQ in Zurich to see new tech being used in the World Cup.