Spectator sport

The Cricket World Cup needs minnows

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Graeme Swann arrived late for the last cricket World Cup. His wife had given birth before the tournament and he…

Little teams mean a lot

19 February 2015 3:00 pm

Graeme Swann arrived late for the last cricket World Cup. His wife had given birth before the tournament and he…

We should be grateful for Andy Murray (and Kim Sears)

7 February 2015 9:00 am

It wasn’t that long ago when the most exciting event in any British tennis fan’s life was whether Jeremy Bates…

A cheerleader to swear by

5 February 2015 3:00 pm

It wasn’t that long ago when the most exciting event in any British tennis fan’s life was whether Jeremy Bates…

One-day cricket can make even a turbo-charged century tedious

24 January 2015 9:00 am

What a remarkable innings that was in Johannesburg earlier this week when South Africa’s admirable Hashim Amla carried his bat…

Bats out of hell

22 January 2015 3:00 pm

What a remarkable innings that was in Johannesburg earlier this week when South Africa’s admirable Hashim Amla carried his bat…

The myth of Steven Gerrard

10 January 2015 9:00 am

‘As a leader and a man, he is incomparable to anyone I have ever worked with.’ Obviously quite some guy,…

Myths and legends

8 January 2015 3:00 pm

‘As a leader and a man, he is incomparable to anyone I have ever worked with.’ Obviously quite some guy,…

Fifteen things we learned about sport in 2014

13 December 2014 9:00 am

It was the year of KP, Keano and the Kiwis; of Federer, Froch and Phil the Power (no change there…

Fifteen things we learned about sport this year

11 December 2014 3:00 pm

It was the year of KP, Keano and the Kiwis; of Federer, Froch and Phil the Power (no change there…

What football can tell you about Jim Murphy (and what Jim Murphy can tell you about football)

29 November 2014 9:00 am

The author of a rather brilliant little book about football could just hold the key to Labour’s otherwise negligible prospects…

Tackling Jim Murphy

27 November 2014 3:00 pm

The author of a rather brilliant little book about football could just hold the key to Labour’s otherwise negligible prospects…

International cricket must return to Pakistan (and my team went first)

15 November 2014 9:00 am

In a tiny courtyard just off the teeming alleys of Lahore’s old town, a young Pakistani boy in a gleaming…

Cricket must return to Pakistan

13 November 2014 3:00 pm

In a tiny courtyard just off the teeming alleys of Lahore’s old town, a young Pakistani boy in a gleaming…

Test cricket and the Archers are both in deep trouble

1 November 2014 9:00 am

Lions and weasels The Archers and Test cricket: words you rarely find in the same sentence and more’s the pity…

Is Test cricket heading for its last innings?

30 October 2014 3:00 pm

Lions and weasels The Archers and Test cricket: words you rarely find in the same sentence and more’s the pity…

Pietersen’s unlikely Passage to India

18 October 2014 9:00 am

A typical Merchant-Ivory film, their biography informs me, features ‘genteel characters’ whose lives are blighted by ‘disillusionment and tragic entanglements’.…

Pietersen’s unlikely Passage to India

16 October 2014 2:00 pm

A typical Merchant-Ivory film, their biography informs me, features ‘genteel characters’ whose lives are blighted by ‘disillusionment and tragic entanglements’.…

Please don't let the Ryder Cup go the way of football

4 October 2014 9:00 am

Well, that was a lot of fuss wasn’t it? The Ryder Cup is a strange old creation, only fractionally less…

Enjoying the Ryder

2 October 2014 1:00 pm

Well, that was a lot of fuss wasn’t it? The Ryder Cup is a strange old creation, only fractionally less…

Roy of the autobiographers

20 September 2014 9:00 am

It has become a weary cliché to say that a book’s publication is eagerly awaited, but when an event is…

They don’t make footballers like Roy Race any more

18 September 2014 1:00 pm

It has become a weary cliché to say that a book’s publication is eagerly awaited, but when an event is…

Just what Diego Costa needed: a guide to the traditions of the Premier League

6 September 2014 9:00 am

That excitable but likeable hombre, Everton manager Roberto Martinez, took it upon himself to give a stern lecture to the…

Those ‘traditions of English football’ in full

4 September 2014 1:00 pm

That excitable but likeable hombre, Everton manager Roberto Martinez, took it upon himself to give a stern lecture to the…

What does Duncan Fletcher actually do?

23 August 2014 9:00 am

Some years ago, when the last Conservative government was limping towards defeat, someone published a book called 101 Uses for…