‘It’s going to be very hard’: pandemic leaves academy players in limbo | Ed Aarons | Football
Zubayr Boadi thought his big chance had finally arrived. Having spent two years on the fringes of the academy system,...
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Football has always adapted to hard times. Its return might help us feel less alone | Jonathan Wilson | Football
It is now 10 weeks since league football was last played in England, the longest suspension of the game since...
Joe Fraser: gymnasts must push through hard times to get good ones | Tumaini Carayol | Sport
There are few live sporting experiences as transformative as gymnastics in all its glory. Aside from the spectacle of the...
Hard choices in the EFL: ‘Football is a trillion-dollar industry. It can’t die’ | Football
The horsemen are circling and for Leagues One and Two the apocalypse is nigh. For Darragh MacAnthony, the owner of...
Karen Carney: ‘When runs get hard I think of Steph, Stephen and Chris’ | Football
Instead of standing alongside thousands of others to take part in the London Marathon on behalf of the Derby Rimmer...
England cricketers willing to dig deep but county game will be hit hard | Vic Marks | Sport
The last time I was in the Lord’s museum I spotted a letter of 1981 with the familiar Somerset CCC...
Rory McIlroy: ‘I had to take a long, hard look at myself after Portrush’ | Sport
Rory McIlroy turned responses to personal adversity into an art form long ago. His Masters capitulation of 2011 was followed...
Rory Best: ‘I thought you played hard and partied hard. I had to change’ | Sport
“It was another one of those nights and I went in to the local chicken shop, as you do,” Rory...
