JAMES NALTON celebrates Ruben Blades’s song Patria – played before Panama’s game against Ghana — a song inspiring hope instead of hate
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America ‘gets it’: Why Premier League games in the US will take place sooner rather than later
From Broadway to Boreham Wood, LAYTH YOUSIF reflects on Arsenal’s pre-season tour to the United States and says it is only a matter of time until the Premier League will play matches Stateside
FC Barcelona forward Ferran Torres, left, scores past Arsenal FC defender Rob Holding during the second half of a Champions Cup soccer match, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Inglewood, Calif
Fifty years ago this month, Britain faced its hottest summer on record, as welterweight champion Stracey met his match in Mexico’s Palomino, writes JOHN WIGHT.
Including races at Newcastle, York and Chester
HIGH summer had truly arrived at the prodigiously luminous, garishly resplendent, and gloriously jam-packed Times Square, otherwise known as the centre of the universe.
As befitting its Broadway and 42nd Street location, and to a backdrop of steam rising through the packed streets and traffic cops with their obligatory flourish of whirring arms directing unsteady traffic, as if offering guidance to lost giraffes, came a succession of cameos and characters.
New York, New York: never mind being the city that doesn’t sleep, it’s the city that keeps you awake.
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