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Mike Lee was able to return to his London office knowing that he had pulled off yet another sports bidding coup. Lee was the PR mastermind who guided Qatar, a country smaller than Wales, whose national football team has never been ranked in the world’s top 100, to the status of 2022 World Cup hosts
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Why do Americans get involved in soccer, a sport most of them can’t abide? It’s a question that still puzzles fans over here
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MARK DAVIES says all sports, from racing to cricket, to the Olympic Movement ahead of London 2012, need to work alongside the betting industry, rather than attacking it
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With global championship athletics back in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium this week, STEVEN DOWNES speaks to Dorothy Tyler, who competed there in 1936 when she wanted to give Hitler a slap Even at 89, Dorothy Tyler still has the nerve of a big-time competitor. Not so long ago, in front of Princess Anne and more than [...]
Continue reading →Football may be bigger than ever before but, says ANTON RIPPON, it no longer has the some of the characters among its managers who used to add colour to the game Time was when football was such an uncomplicated affair. Even top players were paid little more than the average working wage — not three [...]
Continue reading →A simple, one-word rule change transformed football for ever. ANTON RIPPON looks back 84 years at its impact, and the tactical refinement introduced by Herbert Chapman The next time Chelsea supporters champion John Terry as the best centre half in England, or Europe, or even the world — assuming that by then he hasn’t signed [...]
Continue reading →Manchester United this morning cancelled their planned match in Jakarta, part of a Far East tour, following the terrorist bombings of two hotels in the Indonesian capital.
Continue reading →As football’s focus shifts this weekend across the Atlantic, to where David Beckham returns to MLS, ANTON RIPPON writes on something in which US soccer has led the British game – a hall of fame
Continue reading →Former Telegraph man MICHAEL HEAL was inspired to poetry by this year’s Wimbledon I’m far from a chauvinist per se But think that in matters of pay, That girls wielding rackets, earning equal pay packets Are ahead at the end of the day The men must serve up a match of five sets The ladies [...]
Continue reading →England and Australia resume their Ashes cricket rivalry this morning. Here, we separate some facts from common fictions surrounding the series 1, It’s “traditional” for the first Test to be staged at Lord’s. No, it isn’t. It is usual for the second Test in any five-Test series in England to be staged at Lord’s, and [...]
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