Football
Winter warmers
James Cook’s third voyage as an English captain ended in disaster, stabbed to death and disembowelled by a pack of…
The manager, not the man
For a quarter of a century Sir Alex Ferguson bestrode football’s narrow world like a colossus. Like his predecessor knight-manager,…
All change at the top
In sport, as in life, you just don’t know where you stand any more. Look at the Premier League: no…
The thrill of the bore draw
A successful gambler once told me: ‘Never bet on football, never bet on multipliers, and never ever bet on football…
A legend in his own time
The last time David Peace wrote a novel about football he got his publishers sued for libel, which may help…
Speculation season
It’s been a long, hot, soccerless holiday. There has been football about — the women’s European Championship, for example, and…
