Is pro-golf eating itself?
Spare a thought for Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag. He’s got a fairly crummy, injury-hit team who appear to have…
The strikers giving Southgate a headache
Poor Gareth Southgate. Having three outstanding finishers is giving him a thumping headache ahead of the European Championship. Harry Kane,…
Manchester City are surely unstoppable
Well it was fun while it lasted, the closest three-way race for the Premier League in history, a title challenge…
County cricket needs Bazball
It’s freezing cold and everywhere is flooded, so it must be the start of the county cricket season. Surrey, last…
English cricket doesn’t travel well
It’s a tricky old time for cricket. The collapse of England’s World Cup white-ballers – and how they have managed…
It’s a blessing that England didn’t make the rugby World Cup final
In the days when Spitting Image was funny it featured a song called ‘I’ve Never Met A Nice South African’.…
Bend it like Biles
Has there ever been an athlete, male or female, quite like Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time? She…
Will the US catch the birdie?
At last the Ryder Cup is here – well, in Rome – and with it Europe’s biennial chance to stick…
The man who won’t go away
‘What are you still doing here?’ joked Daniil Medvedev to Novak Djokovic after their US Open tennis final – a…
England just need to have fun
So the end is near… or it certainly will be soon if England’s rugby players carry on trying to do…
Are the Red Roses due a routing?
England’s preparation for the upcoming rugby World Cup is beginning to look like a slow-motion car crash, after two pathetic…
Test of time
And they said Test cricket was in its death throes! This epic, attention-grabbing, emotion-wringing Ashes series ended in the last…
A summer of thrillers
Great sport needs great rivalries, and that is why anyone with a pulse must celebrate being in the throes of…
If you thought Lord’s was rowdy…
Shouldn’t we all just calm down a bit after Lord’s? Once prime ministers decide to intervene, you know things have…
Why we all need an Ollie Robinson
It’s a long way from Edgbaston to Karachi, but that’s where my thoughts were turning after Australia’s last-gasp victory in…
