This Sporting Life

This is how it ends: the whimper, or the bang

Some have the granddaddy knack

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

Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it

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

There is a difference between innovation and a gimmick

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