The name of the first professional football player seems too perfect to be true ... its profitability around the world is matched by no other sport. Heffelfinger likely would have marveled ...

The NFL conditions proposed last week stated that no more than one player per NFL team can play at the Olympics, in addition ...

recruited at least 300 players. "Hope is a largely forgotten figure in British history, but his role in setting up the world’s first football club was of huge significance," said Andy Mitchell ...