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FIFA are planning to issue their own captain’s armbands for the World Cup in what appears to be a response to the OneLove armband message proposed by European nations

Scotland's first openly gay professional footballer on the global cost of Qatar's laws against homosexuality

A stand-alone runner to oversee the game despite vocal critics in several quarters as the most controversial World Cup in history approaches – but what is Fifa’s real role and responsibility now?

Our daily rundown will be available through the tournament. Here is a taster to set the scene as the big kick-off looms

The president of France has said politics should be kept out of sport but his request is not only an insult but a semantic impossibility

It was a Thursday, apparently…Thursday December 2, 2010. Just 12 years but a lifetime ago at the same time.

In his poem Die Lorelei, Heinrich Heine touched on the stillness of the Rhine in his portrait of the legendary mermaid who lured sailors to their doom on the rocks along the river. Just shy of 200 years after Heine's masterpiece, no siren songs have been required to attract footballers…

OPPOSITION players were instantly filled with dread when they spotted Graeme Souness rampaging towards them during the brilliant but volatile…

The football World Cup is finally upon us, and performing on such a grand stage can only benefit football, rugby and all sports in Wales