euro 2020
The Italians are deluding themselves about the English
Not content with winning Euro 2020, many Italians have spent the days since the final engaged in a febrile orgy…
Football’s never coming home
I failed a moral test last weekend. A friend offered me a free ticket to the Euro 2020 final and…
Britain is a tolerant country and a few football racists don't change that
The racist messages sent to England football players in recent days are shameful, but to suggest that the UK is a festering hotbed…
Isn't it time social media cracked down on racism?
No sooner had Bukayo Saka’s penalty kick thudded into the gloves of the Italian goalkeeper than you could see it…
England, Italy and the power of national pride
As an Englishman in enemy territory I am lucky that love is a more powerful emotion than patriotism otherwise after…
Jess Phillips is wrong about football’s double-barrelled surnames
As the nation went football mad last week, nowhere was there a more stark expression of the ‘I’m-new-to-this performative fandom’…
What's the problem with Gareth Southgate's 'war talk'?
War analogies are a cherished football tradition. From chants of ‘Stand up if you won the war’ to the Daily…
Boris's cunning has allowed him to share in England's Euro 2020 glory
You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. That was the formula of legendary New York governor Mario Cuomo and…
Have Southgate’s England lost their moral compass?
Back in the 1980s the BBC Match of the Day opening credits featured a clip of Manchester United winger Mickey…
Stop politicising football
Before the England football team plays in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday we need to get one thing straight: who…
France is divided on 'taking the knee'
Until this month ‘taking a knee’ has not been a French phenomenon. When the Black Lives Matter movement spilled out of…
