
Joe Mewis
For more than a decade, Joe Mewis has worked in football journalism as a reporter and editor. Mewis has had stints at Mirror Football and LeedsLive among others and worked at FourFourTwo throughout Euro 2024, reporting on the tournament. In addition to his journalist work, Mewis is also the author of four football history books that include times on Leeds United and the England national team. Now working as a digital marketing coordinator at Harrogate Town, too, Mewis counts some of his best career moments as being in the iconic Spygate press conference under Marcelo Bielsa and seeing his beloved Leeds lift the Championship trophy during lockdown.
Latest articles by Joe Mewis

‘I was never the same after all the injections and operations at Manchester United – I was in constant pain. I never realised just how dangerous my injury had been’ Owen Hargreaves opens up on the injuries that derailed his career
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EXCLUSIVE A series of knee injuries wrecked the midfielder’s career after he had established himself in the England side

‘I believe that when I step onto the pitch, I can create moments and goals out of nothing. I’ve got a name for myself for scoring in big moments – I like that’ Ella Toone on her big-game temperament
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EXCLUSIVE The Manchester United star is preparing to bring her big-ham mentality to Euro 2025

‘Frank Lampard said in front of everyone that I was the best, even though he was given man of the match. I’d played out of my usual position and it was perfect’ Juliano Belletti on his Chelsea highpoint
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EXCLUSIVE Belletti spent three years at Stamford Bridge following a £4million move from Barcelona in 2007

‘I felt I’d climbed a mountain after the 2006 World Cup. A lot of England fans and journalists had never seen me play, but I always knew I’d win them round’ Owen Hargreaves on proving the naysayers wrong
By Joe Mewis published
EXCLUSIVE The former Manchester United and Bayern Munich man had never lived in England when he made his Three Lions debut

Liverpool report: 'Inside information' dropped over third signing of the summer
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Liverpool midfielder Szoboszlai has been discussing the club's summer transfer business

Liverpool star Darwin Nunez on verge of exit following fresh update: report
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Darwin Nunez's Liverpool future remains in doubt despite the club's Premier League title-winning campaign

When are the 2025/26 Premier League and EFL fixtures released?
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Fixture release day is around the corner and fans will soon be able to pack out their diaries

Club World Cup goalkeeper who shipped in 10 goals reveals he's taken unpaid leave
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The part-time New Zealanders took on European powerhouse Bayern Munich in their opening Club World Cup game on Sunday

‘The World Cup became a race against time for me. Now I feel good, in form and super-focused with the mentality that I want to succeed and lift the trophy’ Alexia Putellas on her Euro 2025 dream this summer
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EXCLUSIVE Alexia Putellas is ready to add a European title to the World Cup win she played a bit part in for Spain in 2023

“The whole family were Arsenal fans, but my mum said, ‘I’m supporting Spurs to piss them off!’ She was a striker and modelled herself on Jimmy Greaves” Badminton star Gail Emms on her Lioness star mum’s love for football
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EXCLUSIVE Olympic medal-winning badminton star Gail Emms has written a book about her Lioness mother and the rest of the 1971 World Cup team

‘It’s always been volatile between Wimbledon and MK, but I don’t mind it. The club’s identity has changed and is a million miles away from 20 years ago’ Dean Lewington looks back at English football’s most controversial rebrand two decades on
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EXCLUSIVE Wimbledon upped sticks from their south London home in September 2003, re-naming their club at the end of that season

‘I came close to signing for West Brom, then bumped into David Platt in a pub. He and Roberto Mancini lived down the road, so that’s how the talks started’: How Owen Hargreaves swapped Manchester United for Man City
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EXCLUSIVE Hargreaves moved to Manchester United's cross-town rivals at the end of his injury-hit Old Trafford spell

‘A vastly underrated centre-back who didn’t get near an England squad – he was uncompromising, read the game incredibly well and was a tidy footballer’ Stan Collymore on the best Nottingham Forest players he played alongside
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EXCLUSIVE Stan Collymores Perfect XI features a host of Nottingham Forest stars

‘My dad always encouraged me to make my mark early. I was facing Tevez and decided to put a marker on him. It didn’t seem to bother him too much, though’ Liam Ridgewell recalls the tackle that left Sir Alex Ferguson fuming
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EXCLUSIVE A 2008 tackle on Carlos Tevez left Birmingham City defender in Sir Alex Ferguson’s bad books

‘People were naked all the time in the Crazy Gang – that was the punishment for anything: birthdays, scoring a goal, winning a game. You’d get stripped’ Dean Lewington takes us inside the Wimbledon dressing room
By Joe Mewis published
EXCLUSIVE The Crazy Gang more than lived up to their name as English football’s most outlandish club

‘I glanced back and saw Chelsea’s England lads pointing at the top-left corner, as they knew where I’d shoot – but I backed myself and smashed it top-left’ Owen Hargreaves recalls Manchester United’s 2008 Champions League victory
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EXCLUSIVE Owen Hargreaves did not shy away from taking a penalty in the all-English Champions League final in 2008

Quiz! Can you name the top 100 scorers in Premier League history?
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QUIZ! Our latest quiz is here to test your knowledge of the Premier League's most deadly hitmen

Quiz! Can you name every player to score 30+ Premier League goals in a season?
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Quiz! We're testing you on the most prolific goalscorers in the 32 years of Premier League history

James Ward-Prowse and Erin Cuthbert back new innovative football training device
By Joe Mewis published
The Curl Master ONE is designed to help players improve their ball curling technique

West Ham clarify Michail Antonio future after star is officially 'released'
By Joe Mewis published
The West Ham striker continues to recover from a serious car accident that he suffered in December

World Cup 2026 power rankings: Are Lionel Messi and Argentina still the team to beat?
By Joe Mewis published
World Cup 2026 is just 12 months away - so what kind of shape are each of the leading contenders in?

Arsenal report: Benjamin Sesko price revealed, with deal close
By Joe Mewis published
The Gunners have been heavily linked with the Slovenia forward in recent weeks

Youri Tielemans drops update on Aston Villa future following Champions League failure
By Joe Mewis published
Aston Villa midfielder Youri Tielemans emerged as a key player for Villa this season as the club missed out on a top-five finish

“At 10 Downing Street, Cherie Blair said, ‘You’re the Canadian player – why do you play for England?’ I was like, ‘Sorry, what?’ It was odd and it kind of hurt” Owen Hargreaves opens up on dealing with criticism over his international allegiances
By Joe Mewis published
EXCLUSIVE The Canadian-born midfielder has an English father and a Welsh mother

‘Working for Mourinho was a great experience – he was a master at motivating and knew how to strike the right chord with each player. We were his soldiers’ Andriy Shevchenko on his loyalty to his former Chelsea boss
By Joe Mewis published
EXCLUSIVE Jose Mourinho was in charge at Stamford Bridge when the Ukrainian completed his £30million move from AC Milan
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