Sport

ROB HUGHES on the potential return of Christian Eriksen, eight months after his heart stopped suddenly on the pitch

Lawyer Joe Tacopina has represented the great and the not-so-good. But what’s he doing as the owner of a club in Italy’s Serie B? By RYAN HERMAN

Two of the leading lights behind the failed European Super League bid have since gone in very different directions

The world No. 1 men's tennis star won't disappear from headlines just because he's left Australia's shores.

Freiburg's Christian Streich is similar to a managerial legend in more ways than one

The world's eyes are on the Park Hotel in the wake of the Novak Djokovic fiasco. Can refugee advocates use the situation to their advantage?

Football's authorities need to pay more attention to players' physical and mental burnout, says ROB HUGHES

An exhibition of photos by Sefton Samuels evokes memories of football, long before the monied Premier League took over.

The Cameroonian soccer player has his eyes set firmly on the prize, writes ROB HUGHES.

The Brazilian player defies age. He started with nothing and now plays for millions, still captaining his country 102 captaincies later.

The Football Association lost influence over the sport when it ceded power to the Premier League in 1992. Now, ROB HUGHES asks who owns football?

Whoever succeeds Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will inherit a hollow and lost group of players, writes ROB HUGHES.

Football is no longer a game for the game's sake. ROB HUGHES writes how fans can but dream of it returning to this.

The Bayern Munich star is seldom a disappointment. Has he now broken this track record?

The case of an Italian Cambridge graduate who was murdered in Egypt has attracted the attention of Amnesty International. But protests to keep Giulio Regeni’s death in the public eye were kick-started in earnest by a little-known team made up of refugees and prisoners.

One thing's for sure, he's certainly ready to try.

Future generations of women players, of all colours and creeds, owe her a great debt.

Julian Nagelsmann has been managing the team from his kitchen, but Bayern Munich's spirits won't be dimmed.

From the Olympic field to Parisian concert calls, Micheline Ostermeyer never failed to provide that special something

It doesn't matter your intent, the sport will take your money anyway, argues ROB HUGHES

PETER TRUDGILL on the cricketer Michael Holding and Jamaican Patwa

Sporting talent can run in the family. Just take it from the Maldinis who have dominated football for generations...

Real Madrid remains focal to European football. Florentino Pérez, Real Madrid president, is both responsible for this and has hindered it

Like Emma Raducanu, Jamal Musiala has become the new Wunderkind of his sport, writes ROB HUGHES

Great Britain performed a reverse Brexit when they joined up with Europe to be competitive against the USA in golf’s biennial team event. But for a while, it seemed even that would not work and the Ryder Cup was doomed, writes RICHARD LUCK

Arsène Wenger has proposed the idea of having a World Cup every two years. ROB HUGHES asks if this his own voice speaking, or that of his paymasters at FIFA HQ

He spoke no English, and had never seen an American Football before but Toni Fritsch was a natural, and he went on to change the game forever.

Italy is not only in it's financial conundrum. The summer transfer window shows the unequal distribution of wealth in global football, writes ROB HUGHES

If Bryan Robson is right, the value of Cristiano Ronaldo’s return to Manchester United could extend beyond the pitch, writes Rob Hughes

Gerd Müller, who died earlier this month, was not only a Bayern Munich icon but a man who gave Germans their pride again. So when he fell, club and country helped pick him up By ROB HUGHES

The Argentine's departure from the Catalan club has been the saga of the summer. But as this exclusive extract from a new book by SIMON KUPER shows, the footballing and financial relationship had been dysfunctional for several seasons

Lionel Messi’s signing for PSG completes a glittering attacking line-up, but an ageing one, says TNE football writer ROB HUGHES