“I don’t look back at that time with any type of happiness.” Ask Rio Ferdinand about the phrase “golden generation” and he will tell you it was “stupid”. That blunt assessment captures the mood ...
On the neon-lit Strip in Las Vegas, a city famous for pushing boundaries in the name of entertainment and profit, one of the most controversial events in sport is about to begin. The inaugural Enhance...
There will be an empty chair at Ella Toone’s wedding this summer as the England and Manchester United midfielder prepares for a major life moment without her dad, Nick. Toone has spoken openly a...
“I waited 46 years to break my silence, because I didn’t think anyone would listen. I thought I’d take these stories to my maker.” Those words frame a deeply personal and painful account from a footba...
Inside the 25,000-seater Estadio Hidalgo in east-central Mexico, fans unfurl a tifo featuring a miner. In one hand he wields a pickaxe and in the other a pastry with a distinctly crimped edge. It is a...
When Desmond Armstrong faced the media at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the first question he heard was not about the United States reaching the tournament for the first time in four decades. Instead, ...
If Argentina are to become the first nation to successfully defend the World Cup since 1962, and only the third ever, Lionel Messi is likely to be at the heart of the story. More than two decades into...
At Scotland’s training camp in Turkey ahead of the crucial World Cup qualifiers against Greece and Denmark in November, captain Andy Robertson brought a very different kind of team activity to the squ...
For the previous three seasons, Sale Sharks have carried the banner as the northern powerhouse of English club rugby. That reputation has been built on consistency, ambition and a squad capable of com...
A World Cup group qualifying campaign with plenty of talking points for Northern Ireland has come to an end, with the main objective achieved: keeping the World Cup dream alive. The campaign brought f...