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  • Kylian Mbappé and his PSG teammates dance and celebrate their stunning comeback victory

    Barcelona 1-4 PSG (4-6 agg)
    Mbappé inspires comeback victory after Araújo red

    Kylian Mbappé’s double helped PSG stun Barcelona 4-1, 6-4 overall, in their Champions League quarter-final after Ronald Araújo’s red card
  • Marcel Sabitzer celebrates after scoring Borussia Dortmund’s aggregate winner

    Dortmund 4-2 Atlético (5-4 agg)
    Hosts win thrilling seesaw contest to reach last four

  • Mikel Arteta takes a walk on the Allianz Arena pitch

    Champions League
    Arsenal arrive in Munich with destiny still in their hands

    Mikel Arteta knows ousting Bayern in their own backyard will take some doing
    • Real Madrid v Manchester City, UEFA Champions League, Quarter Final, First Leg, Football, Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - 09 Apr 2024<br>EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Javier Garcia/REX/Shutterstock (14424044fh) Ruben Dias of Manchester City and Jude Bellingham of Real Madrid Real Madrid v Manchester City, UEFA Champions League, Quarter Final, First Leg, Football, Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, Madrid, Spain - 09 Apr 2024

      Champions League
      Bellingham says joining Real Madrid was a ‘no-brainer’

    • Champions League
      Holders City must dethrone Madrid’s kings

    • League One
      Portsmouth clinch title and promotion to Championship

    • Chelsea Women
      Hayes claims players’ WSL success ‘taken for granted’

    • Football Daily
      Toddlers at a party fighting over the last piece of cake

    • African football
      Eto’o claims he is victim before fixing hearing

    • Everton
      Takeover bidder 777 gets extension to repay £160m

    • Werder Bremen
      Keïta suspended and fined after walking out of game

News and features

  • David Squires

    David Squires on …
    Manchester City looking down on their rivals again

    Our cartoonist looks back on a dramatic weekend in the Premier League
  • Cole Palmer celebrates scoring Chelsea's fifth goal

    Palmer’s imagination integral to Chelsea’s future

    Paul MacInnes
  • Fans celebrate England’s win over Denmark in the 2023 Women’s World Cup at a Baller FC event in London

    'It's open to everyone’
    Women’s football watch parties are on the rise

  • ‘It’s a shame’
    Pochettino angry over penalty spat in Chelsea win

  • Record breakers?
    Arkadag FC and the winning streak still under scrutiny

  • Do I not like that
    Ten Hag rebukes Garnacho for social media activity

  • Listen, listen, listen
    Women's Football Weekly on the FA Cup semi-finals

  • Champions League
    Double-treble dream is City’s motivation, admits Silva

  • Saudi Arabia
    FA condemn whipping of player by spectator

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Over there

  • Todd Boehly watches Chelsea play Manchester United at Stamford Bridge

    Todd Boehly, Chelsea’s self-styled revolutionary, is facing failure

  • Christian Pulisic has 9 goal involvements for Milan in Serie A this season.

    Christian Pulisic has been a bright spot in a frustrating Milan season

  • Antonee Robinson of Fulham FC in action during a November match against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Craven Cottage.

    Antonee Robinson: the American left back finding career form at Fulham

  • Burnley have four points from 12 League games.

    Is the Premier League really the Holy Grail for supporters?

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In depth

  • A candlelit vigil outside St George’s Hall in Liverpool, the day after an inquest delivered the verdict of unlawful killing

    Hillsborough, 35 years on
    The pain of injustice remains raw as ever

    Despite vindication, families and survivors lament lack of accountability
  • Liverpool's Curtis Jones reacts after missing a scoring chance during the English Premier League soccer match between Liverpool and Crystal Palace at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, England, Sunday, April 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Super) Manchester City's Erling Haaland (centre), Matheus Nunes (left) and Julian Alvarez celebrate after Luton Town's Daiki Hashioka (not pictured) scores an own goal during the Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester. Picture date: Saturday April 13, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Man City. Photo credit should read: Martin Rickett/PA Wire. Soccer Football - Premier League - Arsenal v Aston Villa - Emirates Stadium, London, Britain - April 14, 2024 Arsenal's David Raya looks dejected after the match REUTERS/David Klein NO USE WITH UNAUTHORIZED AUDIO, VIDEO, DATA, FIXTURE LISTS, CLUB/LEAGUE LOGOS OR 'LIVE' SERVICES. ONLINE IN-MATCH USE LIMITED TO 45 IMAGES, NO VIDEO EMULATION. NO USE IN BETTING, GAMES OR SINGLE CLUB/LEAGUE/PLAYER PUBLICATIONS.

    This title race is different than when City once stumbled

    Jonathan Wilson
    City have not been at their overwhelming best this season, but they remain immune to the typical anxieties of a title run-in
    • Adam Wharton, Andreas Pereira and Oliver Arblaster

      Premier League
      Ten talking points from the weekend’s action

    • Manchester City players celebrate

      Football Weekly
      Advantage Manchester City in the title race?

    • Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk reacts during the 1-0 Premier League defeat to Crystal Palace.

      Weary Liverpool’s title push close to petering out

      Jonathan Wilson
    • An illustration of Erling Haaland, Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappé

      Haaland, Mbappé and Bellingham flopping was a thrill

      Barney Ronay
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Business of soccer

  • FBL-ENG-PR-MAN CITY-CHELSEA-FANS<br>City fans arrive for the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, north west England, on February 17, 2024. (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP) (Photo by DARREN STAPLES/AFP via Getty Images)

    The Premier League’s era of vanity worship may be over but the future won’t be equal

    Aaron Timms
  • The new season of ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ will premiere on 18 April.

    Should other clubs chase Wrexham’s American success story?

  • Rafael Devers, John Henry, Jurgen Klopp

    Does Jürgen Klopp’s exit signal the end of the golden age of FSG?

  • SSC Napoli v FC Internazionale - Italian EA Sports FC Supercup Final<br>RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - JANUARY 22: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale receives the trophy during the Italian EA Sports FC Supercup Final match between SSC Napoli and FC Internazionale at Al-Awwal Stadium on January 22, 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Photo by Matteo Ciambelli / DeFodi Images via Getty Images)

    The Saudi takeover of European football is about power, not sportswashing

    Aaron Timms
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Football Weekly

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Video

  • Chelsea
    Pochettino 'upset' at penalty spat and argues with journalist

    A furious Mauricio Pochettino said it was 'a shame' that Nicolas Jackson and Noni Madueke took the gloss off Chelsea’s 6-0 win over Everton
  • Abderrazak Hamdallah was struck at end of Saudi Super Cup final

    0:21

    Saudi Pro League
    Al-Ittihad's Hamdallah whipped by spectator

  • Bayer Leverkusen fans poured down the steps and on to the pitch to celebrate the historic win

    Bayer Leverkusen
    Fans storm pitch to celebrate first ever Bundesliga victory

  • Jürgen&nbsp;Klopp admitted Liverpool must improve if they are to win the Premier League title after their 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace on Sunday

    1:17

    'Why should we win the league?'
    Klopp says Liverpool must improve to win title

  • Xabi Alonso was showered in beer by several of his Bayer Leverkusen players during a press conference after Sunday's 5-0 win over Werder Bremen which sealed the club's first Bundesliga title.

    0:41

    Bundesliga
    Bayer Leverkusen players shower Xabi Alonso in beer

  • Emma Hayes quoted poetry and said she would follow advice she gave her son on how to avoid playground confrontations when asked on Friday about her touchline spat with Arsenal’s head coach, Jonas Eidevall

    1:05

    Emma Hayes
    Manager recites poetry after Eidevall calls her ‘irresponsible’

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The top 100

The Guardian’s annual guide to the world’s top players

See who made the lists

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Opinion

  • Philipp Lahm lifts the World Cup trophy after defeating Argentina 1-0 in the 2014 final in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Three stripes and out … but good can come from Germany leaving Adidas

    Philipp Lahm
  • Everton fans protesting against the Premier League.

    Premier League has created impression of a rigged game

    Paul MacInnes
    PSR have not tackled the real problem of clubs’ huge financial losses
  • Sven-Göran Eriksson gestures to fans at Anfield on Saturday.

    Heady days of Eriksson’s England a contrast to flag furore

    Jonathan Liew
    Scenes at Anfield remind us that Swede grasped the role is meant to be fun

    Regulars

    • Trent Alexander Arnold and Martin Odegaard

      Football Daily
      The trouble with being pretenders to City’s throne

    • Arsenal FC v FC Bayern Munchen: Quarter-final First Leg - UEFA Champions League 2023/24<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 9: Harry Kane of Bayern Munich celebrates scoring their 2nd goal during the UEFA Champions League quarter-final first leg match between Arsenal FC and FC Bayern Munchen at Emirates Stadium on April 9, 2024 in London, England.(Photo by Marc Atkins/Getty Images)

      Football Weekly
      Kane returns to haunt Arsenal but Haaland stifled

      • Moving the Goalposts
        Stories of Copa 71 expose past injustice

      • The Knowledge
        The most far-apart country clash in the Euros

      • David Squires on …
        4.54 billion years of evolution leading to this

      • Premier League
        Ten talking points from the weekend’s action

      • Moving the Goalposts
        Wor Bella’s forgotten story of war work and football

      • Golden goal
        Rooney for Man Utd v Fenerbahce (2004)

    Catch up

    • Peter Pellegrini (left), who won won Slovakia’s presidential election, with the country’s prime minister, Robert Fico.

      Slovakia’s pro-Russia turn brings Euro tie into focus

      Barney Ronay
    • Clockwise from top left: Andre Wisdom at Warrington Town; Farnham Town winning the league; Truro City's Dan Sullivan; Scunthorpe celebrate a goal against Hereford.

      Invincibles and pile-ups
      The non-league stories you may have missed

    • Brann supporters at the home leg of the Women’s Champions League quarter-final against Barcelona.

      Why have we been fined for ‘Uefa mafia’ chants?

      Aslak Sverdrup
    • KFUM Arena

      'A club for life'
      YMCA team’s incredible rise to Norwegian top flight

    The big picture

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