The Kookaburra experiment seems a confused diversion, not a ticket to high intensity

Some have the granddaddy knack

There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick

Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting

That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it

Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert

“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing

Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken

The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once

The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow