Sport columns
The Ugly Game
For years the English satirical magazine Private Eye has boasted about the Curse of Gnome, the bad karma that tends to befall powerful individuals who take legal action against it.
read moreLuis Suarez
Many top-line athletes are combinations of beauty and the beast but few more so than Uruguayan soccer player Luis Suarez.
read moreBuck Shelford
Almost 30 years on, Buck Shelford’s scrotum is back in the headlines.
read moreMy Favourite Sports Books
Back in the days before all sporting events of any significance and some of no significance at all were accorded live television coverage (or, in my case, before television itself), the young sports fan had to make do with books.
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