At last there is a contest in this Ashes series, while action in New Zealand and South Africa shows the red-ball duel is in rude health: take note, ECBAnd here, as they used to say on TV game shows – as that tumble dryer, that golden fondue set, drifts…
Bruno Fernandes in danger of being swept away on digital wave of revisionism | Barney Ronay
The Manchester United player began the year as a Ballon d’Or contender but ends it being branded a whingerOn days like these, as the calendar ticks around, as we link hands and sing of our joy at being one notch further on the doomsday clock, it is cus…
Hope can rise from this Ashes debacle, if the ECB stops choking the golden goose | Barney Ronay
This latest defeat exposes the poverty in English Test cricket but it is possible to resist the decline, starting with bringing to account those overseeing itChris Silverwood is taking the positives. Chris Silverwood was expecting this. Chris Silverwoo…
Glazers’ heritage-hawking risks making Manchester United a 90s theme park | Barney Ronay
Owners’ style has long been to make the past fund the present but for all the spending on players oddities are creeping in“It’s a write-off.”“A write-off of what?” Continue reading…
Newcastle’s Saudi takeover will cause faux morality of football to collapse | Barney Ronay
Premier League has become a soft power tool, but is it sensible to sell that capacity to whichever state happens to be passing?Welcome, Mohammed bin Salman, to the billionaire boys club. No need to wipe your feet. Although maybe, on reflection, do wash…
The extraordinary talent of Mohamed Salah and how to quantify it | Barney Ronay
Liverpool’s Klopp era successes have relied on their Egyptian star and the club must decide how much they want to keep himThere were 76 minutes gone at Anfield as Mohamed Salah took a pass from Curtis Jones near the right touchline. Three blue shirts l…
After 25 years of the Suits, is the spinning, self-interested ECB still fit for purpose? | Barney Ronay
Slick marketing Suits replaced the fusty Blazers 25 years ago but the cricket landscape now is very different to 1996Do you remember “The Blazers”? Cobwebbed and liver-spotted, ranged around the walnut-inlaid committee table in kipper-stained tie, regi…