Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn’t.

Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state...

Tennis is the loneliest sport

OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2… priceless.

Love is a fur helmet in a new sport called Petting, where physical contact is the object of the game. Even when you lose, you win.

But Langer’s mendacity, and Parker’s possible cowardice, is less interesting and salient for our purposes than the question of whether or not Gilchrist, too, was lying: ‘I didn’t hear anything—absolutely nothing.’ These were his words...