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

Great app for tracking news and scores. Some useful additions or fixes to the app: It would be useful to filter the Scores tab to remove leagues I don't care about and add those that don't show. It would also be nice to have an option for filtering alcohol or gambling based advertising in the app. One bug is that article feedback is not always present on stories that are opened via notifications. Does not have the ability to show the schedule or table for the Bundesliga.

There's been a few ongoing issues over the past few updates: 1) The hyperlinks take us to a page of nothing but ads. I loved that I could get the background on a player using the links. 2) When using the app on my Android and have to check an email, the app usually closes so I have to find the story again. Really aggravating. Hope to see these issues fixed soon. Thank you.

Great content amateurish app. 1. App restarts everytime you select it instead of taking me back to where I was previously 2. When I get a notification but a reply to one of my comments clicking on the notification does not take me to the comment in question. Almost impossible to locate the comments identified in the notification. 3. The graphical representation of data is both so clever and a waste of effort due to there being no zoom feature. This renders the graphics unreadable. 4. More ...

What's new

Updates to the Feed
Increased Link Support
Slide Stories