Commentary

The Premier League’s big data clubs threaten the big money

Cleverness, ingenuity and innovation have narrowed the gap between the empires and the dreamers

Thursday, 30 October 2025

Sheffield Wednesday can still forge a new beginning

As a life-long Owls supporter, I’ve seen my team overcome adversity. We can do it again

Saturday, 25 October 2025

Rooney has found his voice – and a strange kind of freedom

Rooney, much like other (ex-)players, has become skilled at tailoring his thoughts to a vast market of fans

Saturday, 11 October 2025

Cathedrals of capital: Europe’s stadium arms race escalates

The beautiful game's new temples promise both grandeur and gridlock

Wednesday, 22 October 2025

Australian sledging: the Ashes aperitif that won’t win any awards

The war of words has begun a month out from cricket’s most compelling contest

Thursday, 16 October 2025

A summer of glory – but rising misogyny is a threat to women’s sport

Meaningful male allyship is needed to ensure safety and equality, says Chair for Sport England

Saturday, 4 October 2025

Nostalgia exposes yearning for a time football was more fun

There is a reason why we have a fascination with the late 1990s and early 2000s

Friday, 3 October 2025

While rights are rolled back, women’s sport ups the resistance

Sport has always been a proxy battleground, a place where gains can be celebrated even as losses mount elsewhere

Saturday, 27 September 2025

You can rely on women’s teams to perform when it matters most

The Red Roses must now keep growing after delivering the goods at last

Sunday, 28 September 2025

Pep Guardiola isn’t losing his religion, but tactics have shifted

Pep-ball helped consign the worst bits of the ‘English way’ to history, but tactics have shifted again

Friday, 26 September 2025

NikeSkims is designed for women to be ogled

The new range is an uneasy collaboration – and relentlessly focused on sex appeal

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Matt Beard, the dedicated linchpin of the women’s game

The most influential manager English women’s football ever had died this past weekend. Players say they would go the extra mile because they knew he would do the same for them

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Max Dowman and Rio Ngumoha – starlets leading new wave of precocity

Dowman and Ngumoha are leading examples of young talent flowering because of the academy system

Saturday, 30 August 2025

Racing is a proper industry with history and a soul that is worth fighting for

For once the sport united to resist the threat of a ruinous tax increase, but its entrenched relationship with the bookies leaves it dangerously vulnerable

Friday, 12 September 2025

Majestic ‘Steely’ Hodgkinson sets sights on golden moment

The 23-year-old’s blend of power and rhythm could put her in the pantheon of greats tomorrow

Friday, 19 September 2025

Ricky Hatton, Mancunian everyman and world champion

Boxer’s popularity spoke of an affinity for the values of relatability and rootedness

Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Footballers’ financial naivety has put them on the losing side

The revelation that former players lost millions in investments is a sad tale of misplaced trust

Friday, 5 September 2025

The start of the Premier League season should start with an asterisk

There’s a cost to coherence and continuity by keeping the transfer window open once the season starts

Friday, 29 August 2025

Football journalism needs defending – it won’t surrender

The term ‘match report’ is misleading, and serves no purpose in describing what football journalism does

Saturday, 23 August 2025

Like folding sheets, tennis is a more exciting watch if one person does it

A DJ booth, new rules and a million-dollar prize at the US Open, but it was still just the mixed doubles

Friday, 22 August 2025