This Sporting Life

The sport continues along a path towards its collapse, spurning any opportunity for reform

Canadian snooker has gone the way of Hungarian table tennis

Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains

The days when recording a novelty single was a pre-tour duty are long gone

Nominative determinism is a rich seam to be mined in sport

A seismic Test series and a harbinger of a new force in Test cricket

Much of what is passed off as sport is no such thing

Any penalty is at heart a psychological battle between taker and keeper

Cue the bogus platitudes that leaders make about sport’s ability to heal divisions

Where did it all go wrong for Crystal Palace?