Former winners go head-to-head for the second time in the space of four days – and Leicester suffer cruel fate again

After thirteen years, Jamie Vardy is leaving Leicester City. His time at the club is an example of not one, but two underdogs succeeding against the odds. Could anything like this happen again in the Premier League?

Empty seats in the normally packed Principality tell a sad story of their own as Welsh welcome a dominant French side

If sport is simply churn and ‘content’, then every other form of cultural reportage might as well be closed down, too

The Welsh were crushed in the sort of form that can make this team a nation’s favourite

The Liverpool striker’s form shows you can throw away the data and enjoy watching the human at heart of the story

The verdict on Gordon McQueen’s death has recalled the links between brain disease and repeated heading. If the thrill of a header has a knock-on effect on players’ health, will football become a neck-down game?

As the 38-year-old the all-rounder comes out of retirement, he opens up on Bazball, England’s spin woes and why he’s joined Yorkshire

Arsenal 2 - 3 Manchester United: ‘Disintegration is a self-fulfilling prophecy only if Arsenal allow it to be.’

Once the pride of the nation, the sport is locked into an identity crisis with no obvious way out

The Welsh Rugby Union is cutting costs at the expense of future talent and hope, says the former international

Years of neglect and disregard for culture and identity has seen a once great club fighting for its life

The latest in our series where we examine a Premier League club in detail

“This isn’t a typical boycott conversation. The world needs all the pushback it can find.”

The growing army of ‘fanalysts’ is supposed to free the voice of the masses – but is it just another step in commercialising that liberation?

Caretaker Darren Fletcher’s pre-job chat with his former manager emphasises the 13 wasted years at a football club

Manchester United manager produces extraordinary post-match outburst to intensify friction at the club

Many Premier League clubs’ multi-million investment into ‘difference-makers’ up front is yet to pay dividends

From elite trainers down to paid rabblerousers and the occasional celebrity, professional fighters depend on the entourage around them, in and out of the ring

The striker finds form in a match where his England team-mates vied for position

In the latest in our series, we examine a Premier League club in detail