The week that shook football

How Fifa’s proposal to open up the global game to investors unfolded — and invited a backlash that could yet topple its controversial president

The war dividend

External threats should make western societies less polarised in future

The confession

In 2002, a group of friends from North Carolina told a story that ruined all their lives. What if it wasn’t true?

The summer that changed me

A fractured thumb, a footballer’s letter, a girl band in Suffolk — FT writers revisit the season that made them who they are