Football clubs - Topics

Mascot names at Premier League clubs and the local history behind them What does a sporting director actually do at a football club? Why do football clubs sell their own stadium and then lease it back? Retired Premier League mascots and the campaigns to bring them back What actually happens to a football club in administration? How do clubs keep overseas fans feeling like they belong? Free agents in the January window and why clubs wait instead of paying a fee Loan deals with an option to buy: who really carries the risk Why the expanded Club World Cup has clubs and players arguing about workload Lower-league clubs matter more to a town than the big city club does Can supporters buy their club? The mechanics of a fan takeover How do clubs cope when players come back injured from international duty? What goes wrong when a football club changes ownership mid season? What actually happens in the final hours of transfer deadline day What happens to a football club when the owner simply loses interest? Gunnersaurus being made redundant and the Arsenal fan campaign that followed Women's teams attached to men's clubs: one name and two budgets When did football clubs stop being local members associations and become businesses? Why is the founding date of some football clubs still disputed by historians? How does a football manager survive relegation pressure when the squad is not his? Why do some football clubs run a head coach model instead of a traditional manager? What a club's accounts reveal that the league table does not Why the same six clubs win everything and how revenue locks it in Why do football managers get sacked after a bad run of only six games? Award ceremonies and the clubs that lobby quietly for their players Release clauses and the buyout figures that make a transfer automatic Supporter trusts and the long fight to get a seat in the boardroom Member-owned clubs: how Barcelona and Real Madrid presidential elections work What made Leicester City's 2015-16 title run impossible to repeat? Which club went the longest without losing a league game? How is a football club's football department structured above the first team? How does football's ownership fit and proper person test actually work?