This Sporting Life

Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties

“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”

It is easy to forget how mediocre British tennis was before the Murrays

At stake is the fate of the most-watched football league in the world

A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all

Thomas Müller has provided great sporting inspiration

Cricket has always bent with the winds of change

Will new heroes arise in Paris, 100 years on?

Jimmy Anderson has trotted up to the wicket 39,877 times in a Test match

It is tempting to explain the turnaround in two words: “Unai” and “Emery”