Premier League

Part-time footballer, full-blown talent. Meet Robbie Dale, the barman who tears apart the opposition in his spare time.

The footballing world is his oyster, but Martin Odegaard could be set to snub Europe's elite clubs for an unlikely destination.

Meet 225lb Adebayo Akinfenwa as he prepares to face his boyhood idols Liverpool in the 3rd Round of the FA Cup.

This weekend, the Premier League's finest enter the 3rd Round of the oldest cup competition in the world, The FA Cup. How many will survive?

We said the Premier League’s absurd Christmas schedule would be entertaining, and it hasn’t disappointed: goals, upsets, sackings, slides down the table and very nearly a change at the top. So settle back and relax as The18 casts its weary eye over a week of footballing mayhem.

Chelsea: Conspiracy or Conditioning?

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It’s back: 31 days of rumors, nonsense and exorbitant sums of money for players EPL teams don't need. It's the January Transfer Window.

Newcastle United fans have just received the mother of all late Christmas presents: Alan Pardew has officially left the club, and they’ve received £2m in compensation to boot. Their benefactors? Crystal Palace, who’ve hired Pardew to replace Neil Warnock, sacked on Saturday.

In a moment reminiscent of Zinedine Zidane's epic headbutt against Italy in the 2006 World Cup final, Arsenal's Olivier Giroud headbutted QPR's Nedum Onuoha on Boxing Day. So whose was better?