The England setup seems to be lacking the innovation, imagination and variety of voices that moves a team forwardWith an impeccable sense of timing, Ashley Giles flies into Sydney next week to join up with the England squad ahead of the fourth Ashes Te…
2021 was the year when football’s silent majority finally found its voice | Jonathan Liew
European Super League protests showed us that when fans and players are on the same page, no one in the game can stop themRemarkably, the website is still live. Eight months after the European Super League disintegrated in an embarrassing fireball, you…
Glen Durrant: ‘You begin to overthink, like a golfer having the yips. I was in panic mode’
This time last year the former BDO world champion had just won the darts Premier League at the first attempt, but he already knew something was starting to go wrongThere are the times when Glen Durrant wakes up and tells himself that this is going to b…
Zoom call: how the camera became the action in TV darts
With its split-screen and facial close-ups, coverage of the sport has developed its own powerful visual grammar over 40 yearsChest puffed, eyes wide and fixed on their target, Gerwyn Price steps up to the oche at the start of a new leg in the final of …
We needed Vaughan to talk about racism years ago, not when he is in the crosshairs | Jonathan Liew
Every day of silence on Azeem Rafiq’s experience was a missed chance to tackle a problem that has blighted English cricketOn Saturday morning the BBC broadcast an interview with the former England captain Michael Vaughan about accusations of racism, th…
Conte and Gerrard pour fuel on ketchup wars in tasty cultural divide within football | Jonathan Liew
The sauce is a source of enduring obsession and furious debate in football – and speaks to our confusion as a nationAs with most wars, nobody can really trace the origins of English football’s enduring obsession with ketchup. Perhaps, like many things,…
Dysfunctional Manchester United have bigger problems than just Solskjær | Jonathan Liew
United have an imbalanced squad and a muddled long-term strategy did not help a manager who was clearly strugglingManchester United are a club hooked on instant highs and short-term fixes, where memories are short and judgments are definitive, right up…
James Rodríguez and Everton was always a beautiful doomed marriage
The playmaker has gone to Qatar after becoming an expensive spare part at a club both right and wrong to sign himJames Rodríguez has gone to Qatar in search of work, although unlike many others who have made the trip before him he can at least keep his…
Ceaseless noise of judgment has dehumanised young sport stars | Jonathan Liew
The building blocks of our culture stop us seeing the famous as people. That is not the function we have assigned themNaomi Osaka gave a press conference on Friday night. She’s started doing them again, by the way; I mention this only because after opt…
Back in the game: here comes the Premier League again | Jonathan Liew
Flawed, frenetic yet somehow still glorious, the top flight returns and so do the fans. It looks like a four-horse title race and a cast of six will be fighting to avoid the drop We go again. Thirty-three days after Gianluigi Donnarumma pawed away Buk…