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Jun 4, 2020
England faced Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in successive weeks in the knockout stages of last year’s World Cup. They vaulted the first two hurdles comfortably but stumbled before the third while Wales, who a few months earlier had won the grand slam, fell...
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Jun 2, 2020
Less than a year after England reached a World Cup semi-final watched by 11.7 million people and a new season got under way in front of 31,213 fans at the Etihad Stadium, we are facing more than six months without professional women’s football in England. Seven...
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May 20, 2020
According to the American psychologist Gary Klein, desperation is a driver of creativity, a means to unlock insight or solutions that might otherwise have been untried or not even considered. Right now, English football is in a precarious place, particularly lower...
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May 19, 2020
The chairman of Australia’s professional cricketers’ union has lambasted the national board’s cost-cutting measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak, saying they could have “disastrous” consequences for the game over the long term. Cricket Australia stood down...
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May 17, 2020
Future historians will pinpoint the past few days as the moment global rugby union came face to face with stark reality. Like an iceberg few imagined would ever melt, huge cracks and fissures are threatening to widen and cause a ripple effect even in places where the...
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