Why it’s time for Joe Root to resign as England cricket captain
If the likeable but passive Root was a football manager, he would have been fired 18 months ago.
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First Thoughts: Flooding in Venice, royal term limits and why professional sportsmen are like robots
Consider what the floods in Venice tell us about modern politicians’ capacity to think long term and humanity’s prospects of…
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How I turned myself into a human computer to rate the value of every Spurs player
It’s almost 50 years ago now, gawd I can’t believe it, that I was about to start following a top…
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Why is Harry Redknapp turning a Bournemouth homeless shelter into flats?
Vulnerable people facing eviction raise new questions about football’s fraught relationship with wealth.
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Liverpool’s origin tale is one of triumph against the odds – so where do they go when they’re winning?
The only team left who can beat them is themselves.
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Mario Balotelli and the racism that ruins football
The striker may be a maverick, but the abuse he gets is a stain on the sport, and Serie A in…
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Trusting science in an age of environmental breakdown
Naomi Oreskes makes clear the many reasons we should trust science. Whether or not we find the political will to heed…
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Two great football mysteries: what the crowds are chanting and why Arsenal fans are so mean
Crowds can be witty and spontaneous, but also elliptical and complicated, booing players for sins committed ages ago, or for…
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