Root and Stokes grind down weary India to stretch lead beyond 100
‘Cut out time-wasting this season - it’s killing the game’
PAUL DONOVAN expresses his frustrations with deliberate time wasting in the professional game, ahead of the new season
Referee Anthony Taylor (centre) shows a yellow card to Chelsea's Kai Havertz for simulation during the Emirates FA Cup semi final match at Wembley Stadium, London. Picture date: Sunday April 17, 2022.
THE new football season is set to kick off in a couple of weeks — some will think it has never been away.
There is the usual buzz of anticipation from the fans, as clubs recruit new players and let others go. Who will be the winners and losers?
This will be a different season, starting earlier, then breaking for a month in November, while the World Cup is being played.
More from this author
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by a deep dive into contemporary social crises, that examines how they are manipulated by elites
PAUL DONOVAN applauds a timely play that explores the resonances of McCarthyite nationalism in today’s US
