This is a club that was set up to challenge the supremacy of crime and to give a substantial and attainable alternative to gang culture. By becoming the beating heart of the community, Hackney Wick FC aims to mend the dislocation between the youth and community by giving them a positive example and a road to a brighter future.

To celebrate the launch of the new PUMA ‘Anthem’ pack we linked up with four of England’s brightest talents to discuss a whole host of things; from football dreams, debuts and new boots to pre-match superstitions, dressing room DJs and their own creative escapes.

This is something Christian Pulisic has been preparing for his whole life. It was in England where the young American first found a real obsessive love for the game, joining the youth ranks of Brackley Town, a tiny non-league club situated in Northamptonshire. So, when Pulisic put pen to paper in January on a £57.6 million move to Chelsea it delivered on his destiny.

Many interviews write themselves, when you sit down with certain artists, footballers, musicians  – whoever – or attend the shoot that they’re on, you often pick out characteristics, mannerisms, sayings, skits or even menial things, like tattoos, that you cling onto to make introducing them a little bit easier and a lot more natural. But when I sat down with Night Lovell – the 21-year-old rapper from Ottawa, Canada – I was struggling to find a detail befitting of this opening.

Siobhan Bell was no stranger to the music industry when she first started DJing. “I was interning at Atlantic, assisting the A&R’s,” she says. “I started DJing on the side at places like Work It, which was an East London night with my friends.

Eight seconds. That’s all the time Trent Alexander-Arnold needed on the night of 7th May 2019 to help complete the comebacks of all comebacks in the semi-final of this season’s UEFA Champions League. That’s it. Eight seconds from the ball being out of play, the corner to be awarded, the ball to be retrieved and […]

From humble beginnings, Hackney Laces has grown into one of London’s most influential and all-encompassing open-plan football clubs. An inviting and evolving initiative that gives girls - of all ages and abilities - a place to feel welcome and a place to grow in tandem with the game on and off the pitch.

Now over to Turin for GAFFER’s last stop in the calcio femminile series. Juventus Women have won two Serie A titles in their debut and second years in the league.

Yxng Bane, one of the most exciting new artists in the UK right now, is telling me exactly how it is. I’ve just asked him whether 2018 was the biggest year of his life.

Within the space of two weeks last year, everything changed for Aaron Wan-Bissaka. On February 25 he made his Crystal Palace first-team debut in front of 25,000-plus fans at Selhurst Park against Tottenham. On March 5, he faced Manchester United. On March 10, Chelsea.