In these dark days the unscripted drama of live sport feels more important than ever. The second World Cup semi-final...
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The humiliation was too much to bear. Cristiano Ronaldo pushed Pep Guardiola. José Mourinho looked bewildered on the bench. And...
I’ve always felt sorry for anyone who’s never lived in sight of a stadium. From my back bedroom in Latchford,...
What stands out still is the silences. After every line of every chant, the silence was complete: everybody was joining...
The ice cream stand at Worcester. The grass bank at Canterbury. The tree-lined riverside approach to Sophia Gardens in Cardiff,...
They call it the five-minute final, a game none of the 54,458 in Croke Park will forget. One of the...
On 11 March 2011, Japan was hit by the fourth most powerful earthquake in recorded history. Almost 16,000 people died,...
For the first time since the 1985 Heysel disaster, Liverpool were in the European Cup final and around 30,000 of...
The dead-rubber England victory was something of a ritual during Australia’s long Ashes supremacy from 1989-2005, a feelgood finale signifying...
A bit of local rivalry always helps to crank up some sporting tension and it doesn’t get much more local...
