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Roger Alton

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It’s time to let go of Tiger Woods

It’s not the newest joke in the world, but worth a quick rerun right now after the latest in a stream of near-fatal road accidents. What’s the...

02.04.2026 9

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Arsenal’s boy wonder is the future of English football

It certainly never happened to me when I was a lad – even after a particularly insightful essay on the causes of the English Civil War – but...

19.03.2026 10

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The endearing Englishness of Harry Kane

There’s something ineffably endearing about Harry Kane (though I am sure plenty of Bundesliga defenders would disagree), a sort of old-fashioned...

05.03.2026 10

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The real problem with Welsh rugby

Wales rugby coach Steve Tandy must have the most difficult job in sport, apart maybe from Jim Ratcliffe’s public–relations whizz. In a...

19.02.2026 10

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Don’t blame Ben Stokes

08.01.2026 10

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Ben Stokes’s run-in with Aggers

04.12.2025 10

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Ben Stokes will go down as the greatest captain of modern times

20.11.2025 10

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From South Africa to Saracens, two rugby stars are born

23.10.2025 10

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Does it matter that the BBC lost the Boat Race?

09.10.2025 10

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There’s nothing quite like the Ryder Cup

25.09.2025 8

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Why three is the magic number in these Ashes

11.09.2025 10

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Sport / Good riddance to the traditional sports bar

02.09.2025 10

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Good riddance to the traditional sports bar

28.08.2025 10

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Nothing can save test cricket 

14.08.2025 10

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The Ashes just got spicy

31.07.2025 9

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Sport / The sorry demise of Windies cricket

23.07.2025 9

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The sorry demise of Windies cricket

18.07.2025 8

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State-school cricket at Lord’s? Bring it on

03.07.2025 10

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Sport / The (nearly) lost art of the Test match

19.06.2025 10

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How football found God

22.05.2025 10

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The glorious sporting spectacle of snooker

08.05.2025 10

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Sport / A football regulator would be an own goal

24.04.2025 10

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A football regulator would be an own goal

24.04.2025 10

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The Premier League is rubbish

10.04.2025 9

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The real reason for Scotland’s Six Nations defeat

27.02.2025 10

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Emperor Trump and the spectacle of the Super Bowl

13.02.2025 20

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Sport / Can anyone stop France in the Six Nations?

30.01.2025 9

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Can anyone stop France in the Six Nations?

30.01.2025 20

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The unnecessary complexity of the World Test Championship 

16.01.2025 10

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