The Assistant Professor of Football: Soccer, Culture, History.

Here’s a city that can’t agree on a football club. Seville has two, and they’ve been at odds since a falling-out among directors in 1907 gave birth to Betis. Everyone repeats that Sevilla is the posh side and Betis the working-class one, but Adam Winkel suspects the clubs just like the story. Adam, a Spanish professor from North Carolina, found Betis the way outsiders usually...

New British prime minister Andy Burnham has said that his morals have been shaped by Everton FC, the Catholic Church, and the labour party. Perhaps in that order. And indeed,  Burnham’s politics were forged on the terraces, long before Downing Street. Journalist Adrian Goldberg, author of Where’s the Money Gone? The Battle for the Soul of English Football, traces the...