When the rich clubs like Manchester United play badly, we say they are in a “transition stage”
With lesser clubs, we just say they are playing rubbish.
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John Barnes, football race rows and the soul-corrupting economy of today’s new media
Whenever there’s race to be debated, just page Barnes and up he pops, effortlessly filling airtime.
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Watching West Ham defeat Man Utd, I was saddened by how far Fergie’s old club have fallen
The United team that lost to West Ham this season were devoid of identity and unacquainted with swagger.
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For Japan, the Rugby World Cup is about so much more than sporting glory
The divide between sport and politics is thinner than you might think.
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Post-match “talking points” are the worst. Once the game’s over, I’ve forgotten it all
Commentators pick on any passing trivial incident in a desperate attempt to turn it into a running story.
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How Geoffrey Boycott, the perennial outsider, became a pillar of the establishment
The rapid shift in the political weather since Brexit has seen the ex-cricketer’s brand of armchair populism dusted down and put on…
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Should the Sun have unearthed a decades old “private tragedy” in Ben Stokes’ family?
Even those used to the Sun's salacious reporting may baulk at uncovering such personal pain.
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Football managers may deserve a gap year but players are already just lolling around
Managers work round the clock, they are never not managing. A player’s life, by comparison, is easy. They train from ten to…
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