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On the sidelines with Rise United, the football club redefining Asian identity

Football, family style — Blending creativity on and off the pitch, the London ESEA+ grassroots team is providing its burgeoning community with spaces to express, and be, themselves.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

Warm portraits of English football fans before the Premier League

Going to the Match — In the 1991/1992 season, photographer Richard Davis set out to understand how the sport’s supporters were changing, inadvertently capturing the end of an era.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk

Meet Corbin Shaw, Huck 81’s Artist in Residence

The Sheffield born artist talks about the people and places that shaped his practice for the latest issue of Huck.

  • Huck 81
  • Josh Jones

The Zambian football team empowering young women through joy

After being commissioned to film a documentary about sustainable agriculture in Kabamba, Sam Mulvey soon discovered an entirely different side to the village.

  • Huck 81
  • Sam Mulvey

In photos: the highs and lows of the Euro 2024 final

Football did not come home, but across London fans from all backgrounds came together to dream that it could.

  • Outdoors
  • Ossi Piispanen

Dide is providing a voice for elite footballers and young people everywhere

No one knows who he is, not even his teammates, but the Premier League’s masked rapper blends cold flow and drill-informed beats to interrogate the world around him.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk

Is the evolution of the FIFA game soundtracks a reflection of our changing views of masculinity?

Lad rock is out, emotionally vulnerable pop is in, but what does the changing face of the musical accompaniment to one of the world’s most popular game franchises tell us about contemporary masculinity? Ali Shutler investigates.

  • Music
  • Ali Shutler

The subversive jerseys challenging the toxic sides of football fandom

Football fanatic and fashion designer Hattie Crowther’s ‘Fuck the Fans’ is giving a new face to fandom in response to racist abuse suffered by England players after Euros 2020.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Why is Neil Diamond’s mega-hit ‘Sweet Caroline’ so intoxicating for sports fans?

During this summer’s edition of the Euros, one certainty is the ubiquity of Diamond’s 1969 hit. But how and why did it gain such a storied place in England fans’ hearts? Jimmy McIntosh investigates.

  • Outdoors
  • Jimmy McIntosh

Exploring the football fanatic culture of the Middle East

New photo book ‘Football كرة القدم’ draws together pictures from over a dozen photographers to explore the region’s vibrant football culture.

  • Outdoors
  • Isaac Muk

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