If you have plans this weekend, you might want to cancel them, fluff the cushions on your sofa and stock the fridge full of beer/lemonade/chocolate milk.
Because between Friday morning and Sunday night, there is more football happening than anyone can know what to do with: from the women’s World Cup quarter-finals in Australia and New Zealand to the start of the Premier League, the launch of the Saudi Pro League (Jordan Henderson vs Cristiano Ronaldo anyone?), a Kylian Mbappe-less PSG starting their season, Barcelona and Real Madrid kicking off their campaigns and the small matter of Lionel Messi in a cup quarter-final for Inter Miami. With the small matter of a transfer window going on in the background.
And with apologies for the completely unsubtle hard sell, The Athletic is the only place where you can read about them all from writers on the ground where the drama is happening. Yes, we will have writers across the globe this weekend, from Brisbane to Brentford, from Saudi to St James Park, from Miami to Merseyside.
There are so many big themes we will look to explore and in lots of ways, whether that be through long reads, news stories, live blogs, match discussions with our writers, podcasts, video, our social media accounts:
- Can Mauricio Pochettino breathe some life into…
