The Athletic: Football News

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About this app

Experience unrivalled coverage of Premier League football and your specific club. From breaking news and live commentary, to deeply-reported long reads and exclusive interviews, get all the football stories that matter with The Athletic app.

With the best newsroom in football, we deliver relentless reporting and unique insight. The Athletic has full-time writers covering clubs from the Premier League, and many more across Europe, including:

• David Ornstein, Daniel Taylor, Oliver Kay, Michael Cox & Adam Crafton on all clubs
• James Pearce & Simon Hughes on Liverpool
• Liam Twomey & Simon Johnson on Chelsea
• James McNicholas & Amy Lawrence on Arsenal
• Andy Mitten & Laurie Whitwell on Manchester United
• Sam Lee on Manchester City
• Jack Pitt-Brooke on Tottenham
• Phil Hay on Leeds
• Raphael Honigstein on Bundesliga
• James Horncastle on Serie A
• Dermot Corrigan on La Liga

Catch up, go deep, and join the conversation with exclusive articles, podcasts, newsletters, live Q&As and more. Subscribers get unlimited access to all of The Athletic's exclusive content for just £4.99/month billed annually.

Download the app today and get started with a 7-day free trial.

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Ratings and reviews

I'm a big fan of The Athletic, especially the football (soccer) content, which I enjoy a lot. I listen to most of their podcasts, but I've had a tough time doing so on the website. The podcasts often stop randomly, forcing me to refresh the page and manually find where I left off. It's frustrating and disrupts the experience. The podcasts work better on Spotify, but there I have to deal with ads since it's not synced with my Athletic account. If this issue could be fixed, that would be great.

I'm enjoying most of the content, but the app is buggy. It constantly flashes a warning that I have no Internet connection, even though I do. That pop up shifts the screen downward every couple of seconds, then returns it, making it very difficult to read. It's annoying enough that I won't resubscribe, as this is how I would prefer to engage with their content.

App was ok but now very buggy. Constantly pops up a "no internet connection" banner which is annoying whether you click on it (it goes away and then comes back a couple seconds later) or ignore it (it goes away on its own and then comes back later). This is a stupid bug that should have been squashed months ago but they apparently do not care about the app experience so that's what you get. Sad.

What's new

Minor fixes and improvements