This Sporting Life

Glorious half-century

When it’s good it’s very good indeed

Georgia on my mind

Georgia is growing in crediblitiy as a rugby power

VAR is a blight on the Premier League

A blight on the Premier League

Freddie’s finest over

Five balls, four minutes, three untouchable deliveries, two lbw appeals and one priceless wicket

Rolling the dice

If Martí’s such a brilliant manager, how come he only won one of the season’s first 15 games?

The FA’s passion-killer

FA rules this season protect poor over-stretched bigger clubs with huge squads and budgets

Going solo

This Christmas, 40 competitors will face the most difficult sporting challenge on the planet

A bleak midwinter

For fans watching QPR struggle for the past two decades, it feels like the club is cursed

Fear and loving

Cricket in the West Indies has not been the same since the loss of Malcolm Marshall

Bants means bans

Scarcely any football chants will be allowed under Labour’s new “equality” rules