Just as the England team stir up the nation’s passion for football, Future Publishing has closed its monthly title Total Football following a steady decline in circulation.

Future hopes to find posts for the four editorial staff who have lost their jobs. Total Football launched in 1995 as a rival to Haymarket’s FourFourTwo and IPC’s Goal and celebrated an independently audited circulation of 81,490 for its first issue. Its final ABC, for July to December 2000, showed that sales had fallen to 24,954.