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 September 1 2002

Roy Keane
Inside the minds of Roy Keane
He is football's most complex and compelling figure. Now, in an astonishingly honest interview, he tells all to Sean O'Hagan. By turns fearsome, feckless and funny, Keane talks about that tackle, his drinking and loneliness and says - for the first time - that he is ready to make peace with his Irish team-mates.
Inside the minds of Roy Keane (part two)

 
Ryder Cup special
Monty's revenge
This month, Colin Montgomerie will have the chance to get his own back on America -after the abuse he suffered at the last Ryder Cup in 1999. Lawrence Donegan met the Scot in Seattle and found him relaxed, jovial and, despite a sore back, far removed from the frumpish and aloof image with which he's been saddled. But one question definitely did get to him...

 
The best of the Ryder Cup
The best and worst matches, the finest players, the stars who choked... and the man who played without a putter. One golf tournament encapsulates all the game's dramas. Lee Honeyball picks the highlights from the past 75 years.

 
Spin bowling
Spinners and losers
England have failed to produce a world-class wrist spinner in half a century. But the man leading the search for the next young spinning superstar is the Australian who taught Shane Warne. Can he turn our fortunes around?

 
Heroes and villains
The master race
In 1938 a young English aristocrat won the German Grand Prix - and gave a Hitler salute on the podium. A year later, the Führer returned the favour by sending a wreath to his funeral. Jonathan Glancey explains how Dick Seaman became a Nazi hero.

 
Skydiving
Between the drop and a hard place
When novelist Vicki Hendricks made her first skydive she was hooked. And she found that her fellow addicts didn't just take risks with death, but with life, drink, drugs and sex.

 
The top 10
The 10 greatest horse races of all time
The greatest races rely on the greatest horses. Here, racing writer Sean Magee selects his top ten.

 
Last month's 10
Last month Simon Rae nominated the 10 Greatest Bounders in the History of Cricket. Here's what some of you thought of his selection.

 
Contender
Charlie Broughton
How a BTEC in beauty therapy and make-up lead to working as a car mechanic for a professional racing team.

 
Columnists
Man of Reason
W.W. Bellows: World Exclusive! In the scoop of the year I reveal the truth behind the Roy Keane autobiography and points the finger of blame at the book's true author.

 
Off the rails
Lucy Cavendish: Raymond and I have spent the entire weekend in a state of excitement over the Ebor meeting at York. We're not going, of course. We're off to Devon again.

 
Nostalgia
An Observer Classic
Already victorious in the 2000 Guineas and the Derby, Nijinsky's St Leger win on 13 September 1970 secured his place in racing history.

 
Now and then
From its sedate underarm beginnings to today's 90mph bullets, the only thing that hasn't changed about bowling is its ability to cause controversy.

 
Backflick
How to...
... control a racing car at 240mph.

 
My team
Liz McClarnon of Atomic Kitten on Everton.

 
OSM letters
Your feelings on last month's OSM.

 
Site unseen
Sporting websites worth a visit.

 
Quick-fire round
George Graham.






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