Colin Millar

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Colin Millar

South Korean professional football will lift a 27-year ban on foreign goalkeepers for its new season in 2026. The ban was introduced as an initiative to develop local goalkeeping talent in the nation, with appearances restricted from 1996 before a full ban was imposed in 1999. That was when only 10 professional clubs existed in South Korea, and was three years before the nation co-hosted the 2002 World Cup alongside Japan. There are now 26 professional clubs across South Korea’s top two divisions.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Colin Millar

Next season’s Premier League will probably start with only three English managers or head coaches. The lowest number of English bosses to feature across a full Premier League campaign is six. This pattern is not exclusive to the Premier League. In the Championship, fewer than half the head coaches are English. Of the 96 clubs in Europe’s top five leagues, there are just four: Strasbourg’s Liam Rosenior joining the Premier League trio of Eddie Howe, Scott Parker and Graham Potter.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Colin Millar

Manchester City have been fined more than £1million ($1.34m) by the Premier League over multiple breaches of their kick-off and restart obligations for the 2024-25 season. City have accepted and apologised for nine breaches of Premier League rule L.33, relating to late kick-offs throughout the campaign, with the fine for each individually breach incrementally increasing, adding up to £1.03m ($1.38m).

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jordan Campbell |Colin Millar

Bernardo Silva has insisted he will not be leaving Manchester City this summer but suggested the coming season could be his last for the club. In the past year, City have signed forwards Savinho, Omar Marmoush and Rayan Cherki to compete alongside Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Oscar Bobb and Silva for wide attacking roles in Pep Guardiola’s side.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Colin Millar |Chris Weatherspoon

There may be two months to go until the 2025-26 Premier League season gets underway, but the release of the fixture list has whetted the appetite of fans across the division. Consisting of 38 rounds of matches over nine months, with each team playing their 19 rivals once at home and once away, the opening few games are often decisive in building momentum to set the tone for the campaign, or derailing it through diminishing confidence.