Jun 5, 2020
England’s leading players face the increasing prospect of wage cuts and summer rugby as the sport battles to avoid financial meltdown because of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Rugby Football Union also confirmed it is open to shifting the Six Nations...
Jun 3, 2020
The England and Wales Cricket Board has insisted it has sufficient resources to survive the financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic – even in a worst-case scenario where it could lose £252m if no cricket is played this summer. On a day when Ian Watmore was...
Jun 2, 2020
Decades from now, when people ask how professional rugby union was decisively shaped, it will boil down to one simple question: did a forward or a back win the argument? In the northern hemisphere forwards have traditionally held sway for the most part, helped by the...
May 29, 2020
The schedule detailing how the Premier League planned to RESTART FOOTBALL had been out in the wild for no more than a couple of hours on Thursday when The Fiver remembered what exactly it was that prompted us to launch our ambitious, they-said-it-could-never-work but...
May 23, 2020
Never has a wild experiment made me feel such vivid emotions. Because that’s exactly what Euro 96 Relived (ITV4/ITV Hub, near constantly) is: a gamble, a stab in the dark, TV as guesswork. The plan, on paper, seems ludicrous: just full re-airings of old games? Bob...
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