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Blueprint for a better football

  • Elite clubs fear publication of proposals to curb excesses

    Salary caps, the number of foreign players, ownership of clubs and the role of agents are set to be addressed in a new European-wide report.

  • Blair to back plans to curb excesses' of elite clubs

  • It's time to take on the dangerous elite

    Lars-Christer Olsson, Uefa chief executive
  • The road to Leipzig

    It's a year since the Glazers took over at Old Trafford and, as Tony Howard explains, FC United are marking the occasion with their first foreign excursion.

  • We're on the road to Albert Square

    It's a small start but, as Tony Howard explains, FC United have begun one of the longest pub-crawls in football history.

  • 'FC United? Never heard of them'

    Sir Alex Ferguson's knowledge of the new North West Counties Second Division champions might be limited, but Tony Howard and his fellow FC United followers don't mind one bit.

  • 'Promoted to the dizzy heights of North West Counties Division One'

    Twelve months ago, FC United was only a mere possibility - now they've achieved promotion in their first season, writes a delighted Tony Howard.

  • Why the pessimists fear us, not Chelsea, doing a Devon Loch

    Even with the North West Counties Division Two title in sight, Tony Howard explains why FC United's fans are refusing to get ahead of themselves.

  • 'The trawlers become the trawled'

    With Grimsby Town after their best players, FC United fans finally appreciate how smaller clubs felt when Manchester United came a-knocking, writes Tony Howard.

  • Silkmen breathe easier after FA agreement

    Macclesfield have reached a final agreement with the Football Association over the financial penalties that threatened to put them out of business.

  • Whatever course we take, it's up to all of us

    Some important decisions must be made at FC United's second general meeting - but, as Tony Howard explains, the most important thing of all is that it's the members making the decisions.

  • 'Do Chadderton FC really exist?'

    Tony Howard explains why a fourth cancellation of their fixture with Chadderton has prompted FC United fans to harbour conspiracy theories.

  • How Karl's Kids are maintaining United's faith in youth

    Tony Howard finds FC United blooding the first of the their very own blooming generation of talented youngsters.

  • Developing the FC ethos beyond our borders

    When two Austrian tourists were promised 'a trip to United', they hadn't planned on an afternoon at Gigg Lane, as Tony Howard explains.

  • Caborn plots probe into 'excesses'

    The sports minister won't have to look far to kickstart a European-wide investigation into the game's "excesses".

  • Supporters still need to pin their faith in trusts

    Carrie Dunn, communications officer of Trust in Luton, explains why her work is even more challenging now than when the club's future hung in the balance.

  • David Conn, Sports news reporter of the year

    How the grass roots won in government's TV trade-off

    David Conn, Sports news reporter of the year
  • Should standing areas return to the Premiership?

  • Is football doing enough to attract the Asian community?

    The FA's Simon Johnson and Jas Bains, Chair of the National Asians in Football Forum, go head to head on the issue of whether Asians are being properly encouraged to get involved in the beautiful game.

  • 'Maybe now we'll be taken seriously'

    Tony Howard

    Tony Howard, one of the founder members of FC United, reveals that while most eyes were on Old Trafford last Saturday, something else was afoot in another part of Greater Manchester.

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