Sport

The tournament has the same qualities as Romeo and Juliet, La Bohème and Brokeback Mountain

Not even the president’s ego and Fifa’s greed have managed to stop the joy of this World Cup

I thought supporting both teams would be a win-win. It stopped feeling like one shortly after kick-off

I bought a huge cross of St George for the 1990 World Cup and I recently got it out again. But I’m having second thoughts about actually flying it

His final goal captured everything fans loved about the man who called himself ‘a small guy from Gondomar’

Exploring sporting polysemy – the cases where a single word has several different, even if often related, meanings

South Africa are back in the greatest contest in world sport – but why are so many fans in other African nations getting behind our opponents?

The former Chelsea women's manager is the channel’s best pundit - but her setting demeans her

The night was tacky, over-commercial and at times just downright weird. But I’ve followed the sport for years and a fighting legend finally got the victory he deserved

As the former England manager says, the cure to toxic masculinity isn’t a counter-movement; it's in community

It’s outdated, overlong and deadly dull. The Three Lions should line up for Jerusalem instead

The exercise regime has become a dogwhistle for a reactionary idea of what it means to be a woman

His message of peace brought hope to the world - then war in Gaza played a part in his death

Technically brilliant and unafraid to take tough decisions - could he be the man to end 60 years of hurt and close a songbook of offensive chants?

The president's attendance at the NBA Play-Offs saw him booed by supporters - until he once again fell asleep

Philosophical writer Jorge Luis Borges loathed international football. He was wrong about the sport, but right about the nationalism it engenders

His gaudy White House UFC event is taking place just as those who love and take part in the sport are deserting his presidency

A game without the roars and songs of proper supporters is like a Hollywood blockbuster without a score

Only 34 people alive are in the most exclusive club on the planet. One photographer set out to track them down

The cartoonish villain who turned to cocaine was once an Olympic-calibre wrestler who helped US athletes win gold

In a Vanity Fair interview, the star footballer said he was worried by the rise of the hard right. The result was a wave of race-baiting, and the return of the big Le Pen lie: that unless you’re white, you’re not really French

Prices were so high for tickets that the tournament risked becoming a festival of pure greed. But fans simply weren’t buying it – and so Trump and FIFA have had to think again.

It will be hideously expensive, will exclude whole sections of the US public and be largely inaccessible to foreigners – a perfect Trumpian tournament

At Monaco 1984, the Brazilian announced himself as a legend – but a decade later, he was gone

Reform's Treasury spokesman accepted a day out at the races from the betting-mad newspaper after opposing plans to hike taxes on it

Hugh Bonneville’s World Cup W1A spin-off founders on flabby dialogue and grating new characters

The Ukrainian high jumper, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, has one record left to beat – a Russian one

Flawed, flamboyant and freakishly gifted, Warne turned leg-spin into high art – and made every ball an event

Ski-slope bump or influential person? Two similar-sounding but unrelated words have merged

When I heard that ICE would be attending the 2026 Winter Olympics, I was shocked - but not surprised

Slovenia is obsessed with strapping on skis and flying into the void – and they’re expecting to be in the medals at the Winter Olympics