1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (477+ words) Saturday 12 September 2026 It was a good enough line that he repeated it not long afterwards. It was the right tone, too, acknowledging the setback while refusing to catastrophise it, but that he felt he had to say it at all…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1011+ words) Tuesday 8 September 2026 There are three possible explanations as to why there continues to be a draw for the group phase of the Champions League. None of them have very much – if anything at all – to do with working out which…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (571+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 As one crowd drifted out of the stands at the MKM Stadium, in search of a pie or a pint or perhaps a stranger to slap them in the face to make them feel alive after 45 turgid minutes…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (561+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 Chelsea Women has become the first Women’s Super League (WSL) club to pay for its players to freeze their eggs and undergo fertility treatment. The fund, understood to be worth at least £189,000, has enough money to pay for…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (801+ words) Sunday 6 September 2026 When David Ions woke up in hospital 18 years ago, handcuffed to the bed, he turned to a nurse and said: “Why the fuck am I still alive?” Ions, and plenty of others like him, are the dabs of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (599+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 It was supposed to be the start of a brand new era. For the first time ever, Chelsea will be playing all of their Women’s Super League home games at Stamford Bridge, bringing to an end a decade-long…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (323+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 The opening match of the Women’s Super League will have done­ ­little to dispel any pre-season narratives. As Hayes Lane in Bromley was lit up by the league’s brand colours, courtesy of a sunset, this was a match…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (402+ words) Saturday 5 September 2026 Hands up if you had a humble fourth official triggering the new football season’s first major refereeing row. Reasonable to have assumed, I would say, that on any pitch there would be at least three other people ahead…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (665+ words) Saturday 29 August 2026 Nothing, like something, happens anywhere. That was what the poet Philip Larkin concluded when he recalled his humdrum childhood in Coventry. But not even the most battered and bruised obsessive can say that being a fan of the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (259+ words) Sunday 23 August 2026 He claims he is “no Mary Poppins”, but right now Mike Ashley is probably feeling supercalifragilistic… On 13 August the colourful founder of Sports Direct won a fierce battle to buy the high-end Harvey Nichols department store group. Then,…...