The legend’s shadow will hang over the Masters despite his absence to deal with his issues

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?

It would be foolish to derive too much into the Three Lions’ performances against Uruguay and Japan, but Tuchel’s indecision was a worry

England manager’s experiments are less about personnel than fitness as World Cup decisions loom

Sussex head coach Paul Farbrace on the battle to survive and even prosper after financial disaster

Days after imperious Champions League performance, the Reds’ topsy-turvy Premier League season continued

The original super-agent, Jon Holmes, is retiring. He tells Paul Hayward the secrets of his 50 years in the business

The powers that be trying to manipulate results should be a deep-fakery wake-up call for us all

Vital win will give Newcastle a lift ahead of their Champions League showdown with Barcelona

As the global news train hurtles on, the sporting world cannot abandon Iran’s brave woman footballers

Cheltenham’s iconic festival is fighting back after falling crowds, rising prices and Irish dominance. But can it retain its hold on the racing public?

Iran’s presence at the World Cup finals in less than 100 days is a quagmire that Fifa could struggle to get out of

For England’s leader and their prodigy it should have been an afternoon to remember – instead, it was one to forget

Let’s celebrate the team’s achievements in Italy but don’t make any inflated claims about legacy

If we don’t stay alive to abuse, it risks handing a victory to discrimination

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

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?