Spectator sport
Was it football or just mutimillionaires cheating?
Few sporting events in history have been greeted with such swivel-eyed, table-pounding hysteria as Barcelona’s comeback to overturn a 4-0…
Three cheers for rugby’s Italian loophole
A friend was at Twickenham on Sunday sitting not far from the Italian coaching top brass, Conor O’Shea and Mike…
Three cheers for rugby’s Italian loophole
A friend was at Twickenham on Sunday sitting not far from the Italian coaching top brass, Conor O’Shea and Mike…
Breathtaking and brilliant
Perfection in sport: unattainable, but sometimes you can come close. Moments, people, actions you never tire of watching: Roger Federer’s…
Breathtaking and brilliant
Perfection in sport: unattainable, but sometimes you can come close. Moments, people, actions you never tire of watching: Roger Federer’s…
Should Many Clouds have been racing last Saturday?
Few things in sport are more thrilling than a great racehorse giving its all. That’s why the death of that…
Should Many Clouds have been racing last Saturday?
Few things in sport are more thrilling than a great racehorse giving its all. That’s why the death of that…
Big trouble upstream
At a wedding a few years back a very gloomy looking guest, a well-known Geordie actor as it happens, arrived…
Big trouble upstream
At a wedding a few years back a very gloomy looking guest, a well-known Geordie actor as it happens, arrived…
Unimpressed by the Root cause
Those who occupy them sometimes say that the only two jobs that matter in England are Chief of the Defence…
Unimpressed by the Root cause
Those who occupy them sometimes say that the only two jobs that matter in England are Chief of the Defence…
Ten questions of sport
1. Can anyone explain why England wore dark blue, not white, for the autumn international against Argentina, just as they…
Ten questions of sport
1. Can anyone explain why England wore dark blue, not white, for the autumn international against Argentina, just as they…
Abandon dope, all ye who enter here
The World Anti-Doping Agency has just called on Russia to confront its wrongdoing and generally shape up. Well, good luck…
Abandon dope, all ye who enter here
The World Anti-Doping Agency has just called on Russia to confront its wrongdoing and generally shape up. Well, good luck…
Football’s new Special One
Jurgen or José: compare and contrast (and please write on as many sides of the paper as possible). Is there…
Football’s new Special One
Jurgen or José: compare and contrast (and please write on as many sides of the paper as possible). Is there…
Allardyce’s sacking was not just
The other day Sam Allardyce was photographed with Sir Alex Ferguson at a Manchester United Champions League match at Old…
Allardyce’s sacking was not just
The other day Sam Allardyce was photographed with Sir Alex Ferguson at a Manchester United Champions League match at Old…
The waning of Wayne
As the final chords of the Wagnerian epic that is ‘The Dropping of Wayne Rooney’ fade away, we can leave…
The waning of Wayne
As the final chords of the Wagnerian epic that is ‘The Dropping of Wayne Rooney’ fade away, we can leave…
Eddie Howe for England
The name of Jozef Venglos won’t mean much to most of us apart from a few Aston Villa completists with…
Eddie Howe for England
The name of Jozef Venglos won’t mean much to most of us apart from a few Aston Villa completists with…
This looks like the greatest rugby side ever
British Lions fans of anervous disposition should avoid the telly of a Saturday morning. Live before your very eyes, as…
This looks like the greatest rugby side ever
British Lions fans of anervous disposition should avoid the telly of a Saturday morning. Live before your very eyes, as…
