The FA Cup died, for me, from ’91 to ’93; sometime between Gazza’s goal and Sky TV

Let's start with Bobby Jones, a pretty good place to start.

I loved baseball because it fitted my temperament. I didn’t know all the tactical nuances, so to me games seemed to simply unfold, like my own life, without intelligent design or heroic intervention

Recent reports linking Roy Keane to the job of Celtic manager have been based on two key selling points. By the same criteria, you might as well add Rod Stewart and Billy Connolly to the shortlist

I learned about the facts of life on bus trips to teenage football matches. The teachers were not much older than myself and just as ignorant, writes Tommy Martin

By looking at Haaland in action, you can actually get a sense for what being ravaged by Norsemen might have been like for the panic-stricken residents of an Irish monastic retreat or Anglo-Saxon hamlet

The humiliations of Euro 2008 and the 2023 Rugby World Cup are fresh in the memory. Yet mention the possibility of Paraguay v Iran at Semple Stadium and we are up for it again

Like dissidents in one of those football-mad repressive regimes, there will be no escape for those sports fans imprisoned by their ethics

Bale was an unlikely Galactico. Even at the peak of his powers, there was always an element of Billy’s Boots about the one-time Southampton left-back

Why is sport, particularly professional football, assailed by this constant backdrop of online venom?