The Irish Times

Enigma that is Karim Benzema a unique fooballing maverick

Real Madrid’s hopes rest on striker’s shoulders in Champions League final against Liverpool

Fri May 27 2022 - 13:00

Carlo Ancelotti makes history as Real Madrid wrap up La Liga title

Italian becomes the first manager to capture titles in each of Europe’s top five leagues

Sat Apr 30 2022 - 17:52

Xavi getting to grips with massive challenge at Barcelona

Legendary former star’s young tyros will have nothing to lose when they face great rivals Real

Sat Mar 19 2022 - 06:00

Mary Hannigan’s All in the Game: 2021 rewound (part one)

Callum Robinson’s booster, Newcastle if they actually won things and Super League fiasco

Mon Dec 27 2021 - 10:00

Has the sun set on Barcelona’s glory years?

Richard Fitzpatrick reflects how a perfect storm now envelops the former superpower

Sat Oct 23 2021 - 06:00

Sergio Ramos to undergo PSG medical as part of triple signing

Achraf Hakimi and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma are also due to join

Tue Jul 06 2021 - 10:57

Cristiano Ronaldo retains grip on the spotlight as age remains merely a number

Goalscoring superstar remains as obsessive and driven to win as he has ever been

Sat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00

Zinedine Zidane decides to leave Real Madrid with immediate effect

The Spanish giants have failed to win a trophy for the first time in 11 seasons

Thu May 27 2021 - 07:47

‘Neither Ramos nor Madrid’ - How Luis Enrique dropped a bomb with Spain’s Euro selection

Coach failed to pick a single Real Madrid player in his 24-man squad for Euros

Wed May 26 2021 - 06:00

Zidane won't be drawn on Pérez and European Super League

Real Madrid’s Eden Hazard for for Chelsea reunion on Tuesday

Mon Apr 26 2021 - 11:49

JPMorgan apologises for backing breakaway football Super League

US bank commited to underwrite a €3.25bn grant to fund the move by 12 rebel clubs

Fri Apr 23 2021 - 20:01

European Super League may have died a death but the cartel lives on

Now is the time to get vindictive - Points deductions, suspensions, expulsions, fines

Wed Apr 21 2021 - 21:00

Super League: Fifa chief tells clubs they cannot be ‘half in, half out’

Football bodies warned not to ban clubs and players before hearing Super League’s case

Wed Apr 21 2021 - 01:00

Real’s Perez claims Super League here to ‘save football’

New body’s president said they had been working on plans for two years

Wed Apr 21 2021 - 01:00

Q&A: how will the proposed European Super League work?

Twelve leading European clubs planning to launch a breakaway midweek league

Mon Apr 19 2021 - 09:20

Twelve ‘founding’ clubs unveil plans to launch European Super League

Founding clubs will receive ‘one-time payment of the order of €3.5 billion’

Mon Apr 19 2021 - 00:42

Florentino Perez re-elected as Real Madrid president

Perez has served as president for 12 consecutive years since taking over in June 2009

Tue Apr 13 2021 - 12:40

Lionel Messi is smiling again as Barça head into key El Clásico

Summer storm has calmed but star’s future remains uncertain as club battles big debts

Sat Apr 10 2021 - 10:00

Bartomeu bows out with European super league bombshell

This was a man with nothing left to lose who decided he might as well let it out

Thu Oct 29 2020 - 09:25

Iker Casillas calls time on playing career career aged 39

Goalkeeper captain Spain to 2010 World Cup victory in decorated career

Tue Aug 04 2020 - 14:59

Former Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz dies of coronavirus aged 76

Spanish club won two European Cups during his tenure from 1995 to 2000

Sun Mar 22 2020 - 11:10

Caveat: Football needs an industrial strategy

The goal is to create a game played within your borders but watched globally

Fri Dec 20 2019 - 05:10

No divided loyalties for Mourinho as Tottenham face Man United

On the eve of Spurs manager’s return to Old Trafford, there’s not a syllable out of place

Tue Dec 03 2019 - 22:43

Ken Early: Did Lionel Messi’s team talk help Liverpool beat Barcelona?

Club documentary shows Messi summoning the negative ghosts of Rome in Anfield dressing room

Mon Dec 02 2019 - 01:00

Guatemalan activist Abelino Chub Caal wins Trócaire human rights award

Despite great personal risk, teacher fights for rights of his country’s indigenous people

Thu Nov 07 2019 - 17:00

Bale could be China bound as his Real Madrid career draws to a close

Player’s agent describes Real head coach Zinedine Zidane as a ‘disgrace’

Sun Jul 21 2019 - 22:30

Sergio Ramos asks to leave Real Madrid on a free transfer

Florentino Perez says club have turned down captain’s request as he looks for China move

Tue May 28 2019 - 11:22

Real Madrid president Perez threatened to sack Sergio Ramos

Spanish media report an argument broke out after Champions League exit

Thu Mar 07 2019 - 21:35

Unhappy birthday for Madrid as season ends in one nightmare week

Big squad rebuilding job in store for whoever takes over managerial reins at Real

Wed Mar 06 2019 - 18:30

‘Absolute failure’ - Spanish and Catalan media react to Real’s exit

‘A humiliating end to an unrepeatable era’ as Real Madrid beaten 4-1 by Ajax at Bernabeu

Wed Mar 06 2019 - 13:50

Gareth Bale cuts an increasingly detached figure at Real Madrid

Bale doesn’t look happy, doesn’t speak Spanish and his teammates call him ‘the golfer’

Tue Feb 26 2019 - 07:00

New Real Madrid signing Brahim Diaz says it was impossible to go anywhere else

‘Happiest day of my life’: youngster has no regrets about leaving Manchester City

Mon Jan 07 2019 - 18:12

Ken Early: Odd man out Özil a luxury Emery and Arsenal cannot afford

Manager’s priority has to be to address brittle side’s long-term defensive weakness

Mon Dec 31 2018 - 06:00

Football Leaks discloses details of proposed Super League

Five English clubs among 11 across Europe that can’t be relegated for 20 years

Fri Nov 02 2018 - 21:17