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Dolce&Gabbana at the Ballon d’Or
Kane Ends England’s 25-Year Wait as the Ballon d’Or Lands in London Harry Kane began his career on loan at Leyton Orient, Millwall, Norwich and Leicester. On Monday night, on the stage of the London Palladium, he was named the best footballer in the world. The 70th Ballon d’Or went to the Bayern Munich striker after a season of 73 goals for club and country. He is the first English winner since Michael Owen in 2001. Kylian Mbappé finished second and Lamine Yamal third.
Paddy Pimblett: "I'm Not Giving Up Any of My Scouse for Anyone"
Paddy Pimblett has a routine for getting home from Vegas. Land, get dropped off, get in the car, go to The Breakfast Lounge. There has been plenty to celebrate. In July, at UFC 329 at the T-Mobile Arena, he put Benoit Saint-Denis to sleep in 52 seconds, his first fight since a unanimous decision loss to Justin Gaethje in January. Gaethje is the champion now and has ruled out fighting again this year. Pimblett's answers on that rematch are short.
Rise of the Hamsters
Women's football has been on a tear lately, with England's Lionesses showing that as a nation, we can actually be good at football, with sterling results in the 2023 World Cup, and the 2025 Euros. It isn't just the national side that's making waves. In East London, a bunch of creatives have banded together to create something special, on their own terms. The result is Hamster Ham FC, a mainstay of East London's Super 5 League, named for an animal that is "cute but powerful and inclusive".
Wear Them Out: Palmes and Converse Rebuild the Jack Purcell
Somewhere in the press pack for the Converse x Palmes Jack Purcell PDM there is a photograph that has almost nothing to do with the collaboration. It is a screenshot from Nikolaj Hansson's Instagram, taken in 2012, and it shows him skating in a pair of Jack Purcells in Denmark. "I just liked them," he says, "and I was like, I'm gonna skate in them." Fourteen years on, he has designed one. Hansson is on a call from New York, where the week is stacked. He is taking a group out to the US Open tomorrow.
Louis Vuitton Dolomites Classic Run 2026
Somewhere on the road down from Cortina this week, a 1968 Lamborghini Miura was being driven slowly on purpose. Chassis 3586, the car from the opening sequence of The Italian Job. Fifty-odd years after it went into that tunnel it was back in the Alps, its crew watching a stopwatch rather than the rev counter. That is the thing to understand about the Louis Vuitton Dolomites Classic Run, which finished today in Milan. It is a regularity race. Nobody wins by being quickest.
Morgan Rogers: Football's Next Great Expressionist
As a new generation edges closer to becoming a golden one, Morgan Rogers sits front and centre of football’s next wave. The latest PFA Young Player of the Year has everything the winners of the past had: the ability to decide games, shift momentum and the expectation to become the player in whatever side they play for. I interviewed Morgan directly after he received that award. Nearly a year later, we spoke again.
Bunny Hunt: Khadija Shaw on Becoming Women's Football's Most Lethal Striker
There is a moment, early in any conversation with Khadija Shaw, where you realise the name “Bunny” is doing a lot of work. It suggests softness, approachability, a certain lightness. The reality, once you understand the numbers, is somewhat different. 117 goals in 137 appearances for Manchester City. Over 100 WSL goal involvements since joining City. The first Manchester City player – men’s or women’s – to score 100 goals for the club. A third consecutive WSL Golden Boot. A league title.
Skip It Like It's Hot
Ahead of my interview with TV presenter Miquita Oliver, I’ve been sent a film documenting the inception and rise of her Skip School. As soon as the opening montage of Miquita’s own journey with skipping starts, I smile. There is footage of training sessions in the park four years ago where Miquita was first handed a rope by a personal trainer.
Calcio Storico: Florence's Brutal Sport
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The Ravens: How Andy Woodman Built Bromley's Rise to League One
The night promotion was sealed, Andy Woodman’s foot was going. I was sat near him in the ground. Legs going, foot tapping, that contained stillness on the outside that hides everything underneath. The Ravens, founded 1892, had just reached the third tier of English football for the first time in their history. The man known to anyone who has ever been near a dressing room he ran as Woody was vibrating. “We had a seven-year plan.
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Tinie Tempah on Jiu Jitsu, Arsenal and Sport
He’s been to Southampton, and he’s even been to Scunthorpe. But, in the years since his 2010 breakout hit “Pass Out” catapulted him to international fame, how has London’s favourite rapper been getting on? With a return to music on the horizon, we asked Mr Tempah, now 36, what role sport and his beloved Arsenal FC play in keeping him grounded. Were you into sports growing up? “I tried various sports and obviously as a young lad, you want to become a footballer. But it didn’t happen.
Night Night: Josh Kerr Owns the Mile World Record
When Josh Kerr crossed the finish line at the Indoor Championships earlier this year, winning gold in the 3000m, he put two hands beneath his head and made the “night night” gesture. The celebration was box-office and made headlines almost immediately. It was also classic Kerr, a man who is unafraid to put his personality and rivalries out there when he takes to the track.
Panini's Head of Marketing on the Biggest World Cup Album Ever
Katie Gritt has spent the morning dodging London rain to talk about the biggest sticker album her company has ever made. As Head of Marketing at Panini UK, she is steering the brand into a 2026 World Cup that breaks every previous record. Forty-eight nations. Nine hundred and eighty stickers. One hundred and twelve pages. Billions of stickers heading out into the world. “Sales so far have been fantastic,” Gritt says.
Louis Vuitton Carries Football's Greatest Prize
Louis Vuitton is becoming the Official Supplier and Branded Licensee of the FIFA World Cup 2026, continuing a partnership that dates back to 2010. The French luxury house will design the official Trophy Trunk that carries football's most coveted prize onto the pitch during the finals. The partnership extends beyond the trophy case.
Arvid Lindblad Is Not Scared of Anyone
Silverstone, the first Sunday in July. Arvid Lindblad takes the flag in seventh, points on the board at the first British Grand Prix he has driven as a race driver. He is 18. He is the only rookie on the 2026 grid. A year ago he was a Formula 2 driver borrowing an FP1 session in a Red Bull at the same circuit. Before that he was the youngest race winner in the history of both Formula 3 and Formula 2. The climb has been quick, and it has been steep.
A New French Quarter on New Bond Street
The grand brick facades of London’s New Bond Street have a new, quietly confident anchor. Sprawled across nearly 2,000 square meters and six interconnected historic buildings, the newly opened Hermès Maison at number 166 is a masterclass in domestic-scale luxury. This is not a sterile flagship; it is a sprawling, 55-room home that bridges 18th-century British architecture with Parisian levity.
The World Cup Doesn't Just Crown Champions. It Creates Myths.
The World Cup began in Uruguay in 1930 because Jules Rimet, the third FIFA president and recognised as the visionary founder of the FIFA World Cup, wanted a global football competition that sat outside the Olympics, and Uruguay was strong enough, organised enough, and willing to underwrite the costs of staging it. ALAMY Allstar Picture Library Ltd European teams were reluctant to travel, and participation was limited because the idea still needed to prove it could hold people’s attention.
The Art of Football
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, the first-ever 48-team, three-nation, continent-wide tournament, has prompted three of the most exciting museums in North America to do what inspired the creation of this very magazine you are holding now. Linking Sport and Culture together. Picasso painted footballers on a Cannes beach. Andy Warhol screen-printed Pelé in 1977. Damien Hirst designed an England flag.
BOSS x Aston Martin
On a hot Friday, Circle Zero Eight was invited by BOSS and Aston Martin to Aston Martin's Stowe test facility, which sits inside the Silverstone complex. Complete with its own track and engineering teams, this is where all of the marque's products are fettled before we see them in the flesh.
48 Nations, One Canvas: A Body Paint Series for the World Cup
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Sarah Hardacre's Barrow Parade Honours Forgotten Women
On a bright Saturday in Barrow-in-Furness, a parade rolled past the shop fronts of a town more often defined by what it builds in steel than what it remembers about its own people. At the front walked the Mayor of Barrow, a woman.
Amanda Anisimova on coming back to London, and coming back stronger
CZ8: What does returning to London for the grass season feel like? Amanda Anisimova: I love coming back to London. It's one of the world's most iconic tennis destinations, and of course I had an incredibly special run here last year and made some amazing memories, so I'm looking forward to another go. CZ8: Last year's Wimbledon final did not go the way you wanted, and you were strikingly open about it afterwards. Looking back, what did that day teach you?
Formation
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If you build it, they will come
The breakfast burritos get made the night before. By the time the first whistle blows at 6am Central, Joe has been up for an hour, pulling them out, getting the TVs fired up. Most of Green Bay is still asleep. The Packers do not play at dawn. Football, on the other hand, does not care what time it is in Wisconsin. Joe, the owner of Green Bay Casuals, is 49 this year. He has been involved in the game his entire life. Playing, coaching, officiating.
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Who will win the World Cup?
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Worn Worldwide
Somewhere in Italy, a man is pulling on a baseball cap before his boat trip. In Texas, a woman adjusts hers against the midday heat. On a Scottish farm, same hat, different weather, someone's tucking the brim down against the rain.
Football Fandom Fashion
PhotographyRobbie Mailer-Howat Photography Robbie Mailer-Howat Fandom Photography Robbie Mailer-Howat Fashion Editor Jordan Kelsey Every nation. Every obsession. Every outfit. From Rio to Osaka, from the terraces to the touchline, a fashion story for the people who make football what it actually is; the fans who live and die by the game – and always look good doing it Fandom Photography Robbie Mailer-Howat Fashion Editor Jordan Kelsey Every nation. Every obsession. Every outfit.
Raphinha Channels Music and Football for New Calvin Klein Campaign
The Barcelona and Brazil forward fronts the brand's Spring 2026 underwear campaign, shot by Daniel Sannwald, centred on movement and athletic performance. New styles sit at the heart of it. Icon Active Mesh brings ventilated panels for airflow, while Icon Cotton Stretch gets a stitch-free Infinity Bond waistband and moisture-wicking finish. Underwear built to actually do something. Raphinha said the shoot let him bring two of his biggest influences together.
The Best Seat in Football
Born from the merger of the XFL and USFL two years ago, and owned by FOX Sports, Redbird Capital Partners, Dany Garcia, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson and investor Mike Repole, the United Football League enters its third season in 2026 with eight teams, three new franchises, and a set of rules designed to make the sport faster, more open and harder to look away from. Field goals from 60 yards or more are worth four points. You can't punt once you cross the 50. Twelve players are mic'd up every game.
Cheer on the Thrilling Acrobatics and Heartwarming Tales of Cheerleaders
Weightless. Flying through the air. Twisting and tumbling at breakneck speed. To watch cheerleading routines is an experience both thrilling and oddly soothing — because, certainly in the videos posted to social media, these young women (they typically are young women) always make the shot. Tumbling in the air, they land — on one white sneaker, on a palm of a male partner’s outstretched hand — with a smile of perfect white teeth.
Jamal Musiala: The Bayern Munich Star on Family, Freedom and Musiala Magic
Sat in a studio in Munich, Germany, Jamal Musiala is getting a pre-shoot shape-up in the chair next to me. The atmosphere felt familiar – reminiscent of the many black barber shops located in London. But in this instance, the football talk is with one of the brightest star boys in world football, Jamal Musiala.
The Shape of London
London is alive with a new generation of designers who move instinctively between the studio, the gym, and the club. Their clothes stretch, shimmer, and breathe – merging performance with pleasure in ways that feel utterly of the moment. In Old Street, Chiara Fairfax transforms lycra into something mischievously sensual; in East London, Jane Fu imagines garments as shelters for a nomadic, near-future world.
Snooker's New Era: Profiles of Rising Talents | CircleZeroEight
There’s a quiet shift happening in the world of snooker. At a qualifying event in the North West of England (Wigan, to be exact), the tables hum with concentration, the air thick with the soft rhythm of chalk and cue. Among the hopefuls are a handful of young players who seem to belong to a new moment for the game: less smoke and spectacle, more calm precision and quiet ambition.
The Man Who Made Sport Pop
For more than seventy years, Sir Peter Blake has found beauty in the spectacle – in boxers’ robes, wrestlers’ masks, and the crowds who believed in both. For this truly iconic conversation, Blake sits down with gallerist Paul Stolper to discuss his art, his relationship with sport, and the choreography of British popular life Sir Peter Blake’s London studio is filled with fragments of British life: boxers, wrestlers, cyclists, rock stars, circus performers.
Learning the Ropes: Ryan Pickard Directorial Debut
CircleZeroEight contributing editor Ryan Pickard talks to us about his directorial debut. Boxing is a sport that has impacted many. But Repton is a special place, the Mecca of growth and reputation in British boxing led by the Inimitable coach Tony Burns. Ryan Pickard takes us on a journey on the history of Repton and some of their greatest stories along the way. Elgar: Tell us about the film, what is it about? Ryan: 'Learning The Ropes' is about life.
Christ Tshiunza: Faith, Injury and World Cup Dreams
Christ Tshiunza was born in the DRC and arrived in Wales with his family in 2010. By his late teens, he was pushing 6’6” and 18st, had been a regional sprinter, and was the best high jumper of his age in Wales. His school, Whitchurch High School in Cardiff, boasts Welsh legends Sam Warburton, Gareth Bale and Geraint Thomas as old boys. While still at sixth form, he signed a long-term contract with English Premiership side Exeter Chiefs.
To Race is to Learn
This weekend, the first round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) took place with the Imola six hour race in Italy. Undoubtedly, this championship is for the purists, with the fans braving all weathers in the grandstands to catch a glimpse of both GT3 and LM Hypercars (LMDh) as they rip by. Ear plugs are a must for all at the track, with the sound of the LMDh V8 hybrids being louder than any other class that the FIA presides over.
ASICS x C.P Company
The Japanese performance giant and the Italian sportswear institution have linked up again on the GEL-QUANTUM 360 I, a silhouette that first turned heads in 2015 as the brand's first shoe with cushioning built into the entire sole. The concept is "Architecture in Motion," which sounds like a coffee table book but plays out more simply: the shoe treats the city as something you move through, not just exist in. A layered mesh upper keeps things breathable. The sole is lightweight and responsive.
Nigel Sylvester: BMX Icon in Queens, NY | CircleZeroEight
Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Photography by Harry Eelman Nigel Sylvester We captured one of the world’s most famous BMX athletes in his hometown of Queens, NY showing us his tricks and flicks.
Inside Erewhon: LA's $28 Smoothie Empire and Cult Status
In Los Angeles, the wellness capital of the world, the pursuit of health and well-being isn't merely a trend, but a certified way of life. And it’s here that the sought-after Erewhon Market stands as a home away from home for those seeking luxury wellbeing, community, and an opportunity to showcase one's interpretation of ‘Erewhon Chic’ style. This health food destination is quite possibly the closest thing to wellness heaven anyone has drafted up so far.
Mackintosh x C.P. Company
This inaugural collaboration between Mackintosh and C.P. Company marks a convergence of two-century Scottish heritage and Italian technical mastery. Uniting Mackintosh’s 1823 patented bonded cotton with C.P. Company’s functional avant-garde, the collection reinterprets two icons: the signature Mackintosh coat and the Goggle Jacket. Each piece is handcrafted in Scotland, where master artisans individually cut and seal triple-layered waterproof fabric using traditional rubber-based solutions.
Lydia Heywood: Jamaica's Trailblazing Equestrian Talent
Lydia Heywood is trotting round the competition warm-up at the Tweseldown Racecourse in Hampshire, the picture of elegance and composure in her nipped-in navy jacket atop her horse Mink, when the bay mare throws the mother of all bucks. She explodes into the air, as if resisting being beamed up by an invisible UFO. A split second later, Heywood has her back under soft control, without missing a beat or budging an inch from the saddle.
Power Slap: The New Sport Taking the Internet by Storm
The first thing you hear isn’t the slap. It’s the silence before it, that little vacuum between the raised hand and the face waiting for it. Everyone in the room holds their breath. Then crack. It’s not a sound so much as a punctuation mark. Frank Lamicella watches it happen like a producer watches a take. He knows the rhythm. “People like knockouts,” he tells me. “They always have.
Inside Hyrox: The Ultimate Test of Endurance, Power, and Grit
Hyrox isn’t just another fitness event – it’s an all-out test of endurance, power, and mental grit. Created in Germany, this rising star of competitive fitness has taken the world by storm, carving a unique niche between CrossFit-style competitions and endurance events like marathons. It’s a game-changer, an accessible proving ground for both elite athletes and everyday fitness fans.
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Motorsport Trailblazer Jamie Chadwick's Remarkable Rise | CircleZeroEight
In 2010, not long out of primary school, Jamie Chadwick discovered karting after tagging along to a trial day with her older brother, Ollie. Three years later, aged 15, she was collecting podiums in the Ginetta Junior Championship. Photography by Angelina Mamoun-Bergenwall Unlike many who share a similar motorsport origin story – usually starting much earlier – Chadwick didn’t grow up in a racing family. By 2015, things were shifting up a gear.
The Enhanced Games: Inside the Doping Olympics
The Enhanced Games, a groundbreaking event that redefines athletic competition by embracing performance enhancements and cutting-edge sports science, was co-founded by entrepreneur Aron D’Souza and investor Christian Angermayer. Supported by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, who joined as a major backer, the Games challenge traditional ideals of “natural” athleticism by creating a platform where athletes can reach peak human capabilities through scientific enhancements.
Maisie Hill's Triumphant Return to Snowboarding After Near Career-Ending Injury
Three years ago, you were in a hospital bed being told you might never walk again. Today, you are an Olympian. If you could go back to that person in the hospital, what would you say to her? I keep getting asked that question and it’s not an easy answer. Coming back from that crash hasn’t been easy. I missed a full year of training for the Olympics, and for a long time I felt like I was playing catch up, not just with my peers, but with myself.
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