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

Used to be a great app but recently there are a couple of issues that have led me to uninstall and use the website instead. 1. Got rid of the ability to swipe between teams at the top. 2. Including ads in an app that I pay a fee to access, which is absolutely ridiculous. I'll use a browser with ad block instead, thanks. The other thing they really need to improve is they need to add PGA leaderboards. Unbelievable they have PGA coverage but not a leaderboard!

I haven't been able to use saved stories for over a year. The app just shows "saved stories will appear here". I think it's an Athletic coding issue as I just get blank white screens on 2 different PCs and a Chromebook each on 3 different web browsers. I've tried going through customer service but no fix yet. Trying here to maybe get in touch with tech support directly to even try and clear out my saved stories/account and start over.

I have enjoyed using the app. However, recently the homepage is not loading, just get the spinning wheel forever. Other features work as expected. Other users have reported the same issue. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app on my Pixel 8A but the issue persists. Update 10/12 - After contacting customer support the issue has been fixed. Thanks!

What's new

Minor fixes and improvements