Sports
Cricket’s triple threat
Some have the granddaddy knack
Shock of the new
There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick
Why the goal glut?
Football — never boring, even when Italy is defending a 1–0 lead — has only grown more exciting
Winning sinner
That 1999 Tour needed Armstrong quite as much as he needed it
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
How to destroy football
“Blue cards” will only add to the confusion and subjective rulings we’re now seeing
Hobbs recalled
Ninety-five years on, Hobbs still holds a record that is unlikely ever to be broken
The Midas touch
The kind of skill that makes the breath catch in thousands of throats at once
More than just a club
The four men who founded Aston Villa could not have imagined what would follow
Dream teens
Promise is no guarantee of a long career