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2,000 people will be at Monday’s Ballon d’Or ceremony and millions more will watch on from afar When Flórián Albert won the prize in 1967, his wife Irén was the only spectator at an impromptu ceremony in their kitchen What changed? si.com/soccer/when-di…

After one Premier League game, Burnley are now 19% of the way towards matching their goals conceded tally from the entirety of last season #TOTBUR

There were more empty seats across the first four days of the Club World Cup than throughout the entire 2024–25 Premier League season There has never been higher demand for England's top flight si.com/soccer/ten-rea…

Florian Wirtz has finally completed the biggest transfer in British football history, but it's hardly the most interesting move of a fascinating career tied up in family and the breaking of a 19-year pact. si.com/soccer/florian…

It's been five weeks and more than six hours of football since Brennan Johnson last dribbled past an opponent But he could still prove pivotal in today's final si.com/soccer/tottenh…

Now Caitlin Clark is officially in the #WNBA, I dissect how she went from being the fourth-ranked recruit in the 2020 class, to smashing virtually every NCAA record available, & transcending both college hoops and the WNBA forever. ✍🏽 | @GiveMeSport givemesport.com/caitlin-clark-…

Liverpool have not won a top-flight match at the City Ground since the Hobnob was invented #NFOLIV

It's taken 116 days since the opening game of the season for the first Premier League managerial change to be made, with Sheffield United's Paul Heckingbottom biting the dust This is the longest wait since the 136 days it took Bolton to sack Roy McFarland during 1995/96

Arsenal didn't score their 50th Premier League goal until the club's 49th match in the competition - Manchester City's Erling Haaland has only needed 48 appearances to notch up half a century #MCILIV

Since the March 2023 international break, Scott McTominay has scored 9 goals in 19 games for club and country In the same time period, Marcus Rashford has scored 5 in 26 for Manchester United and England

An Argentine journalist at the '86 World Cup was considered bad luck. He didn't watch his team until they were 2-0 up in the final but arrived as Germany made it 2-2. Unable to leave the locked stadium, he squeezed both feet between the bars just before Argentina's winning goal.

Some of Argentina's rituals included: • Jose Luis Brown answering a phone to no-one • Ricardo Giusti dropping a sweet on the halfway line • Diego Maradona laying out boots, socks, shorts and shirt in a silhouette that no-one could walk over No wonder Valdano was fed up

Dunder Mifflin's Michael Scott once infamously rejected the idea that he was superstitious. "I'm a little stitious," he countered. Unlike successful paper salesmen, many in the world of football are extremely stitious. Here's a 🧵of some of the best rituals and bizarre habits: