Overwork and millennial burnout are blighting elite sports. Even rich athletes are exploited
Four years ago, when England played in the 2015 men’s Cricket World Cup, their players were allowed almost a full…
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By ascribing genius to individual players, we make tennis less accessible
There is something about Wimbledon that feels different from other major sporting events. Perhaps it’s the brevity of the tournament,…
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What England’s Cricket World Cup win tells us about nationalism
Jacob Rees-Mogg and Eoin Morgan's Irish critics have more in common than you might think.
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Megan Rapinoe and her teammates have politicised football in the best way possible
We must pay attention to the intersection between sports and politics, especially in women’s football.
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The joy of festival cricket, pastime of small towns
“There can be no summer in this land without cricket,” wrote Neville Cardus, the man who invented sports writing, or…
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Football is getting VAR wrong – it should learn from cricket
Rather than learning from what others have done right, football has developed just about the worst system possible.
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Cocaine, car chases and Camorra: how Maradona’s chaotic time at Napoli destroyed him
Fashioned from 500 hours of the subject’s own private footage, Diego Maradona is a new documentary by the director Asif…
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The Champions League is like winning an exotic holiday and finding all your neighbours there
Incredible. Four English teams competing for the two big European trophies. An unprecedented takeover of the major competitions, a moment of…
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