Sport

  • 27 Jun 2011

    The England women’s football team begin their World Cup bid on Monday evening with a game against Mexico. Manager Hope Powell says top level women’s football is in “a better place than ever”.

  • 14 Apr 2010

    The Liberal Democrats could be the deciding party in the next election. Their manifesto gets the FactCheck treatment.

  • 24 Jun 2009

    No tennis at Lillywhites? It's like a pub without beer!

    Ahead of a charity tennis game I felt the need to replace my somewhat ragged tennis shorts. It would doubtless please the great old sports vendor Lillywhites, which dominates one corner of Piccadilly Circus, that that was my first thought as to where to buy them.

  • 26 Mar 2009

    Formula One: not sport

    If ever further proof were needed that Formula One motor racing is little more than a pile of (insert rude word of your choice at this point), then it is the fact that yet another raft of new regulations has had to be conjured to try and make the thing more competitive.

  • 5 Feb 2009

    Everton fans, Jimmy Carter feels your pain

    The tragic miss of the only goal in the Everton-Liverpool match by ITV Sport seems to have been down to engineers failing to throw a manual override to stop the ads going out automatically. Only in the region where the game was actually being played does the engineer actually seem to have been watching what…