The Game columnist Andy Murray is luxuriating in the best time of the football season. The League play-offs.
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Drugs, drinking Chanel No5 and an axe-wielding Oliver Reed – how snooker tore up the rulebook to dominate sport and the music charts in the 1980s.
This year's world championships started on April 16 and will conclude on May 2nd. The Game columnist Andy Murray looks back at the sport’s 1980s heyday when 18.5million people stayed up to watch the 1985 black-ball final.
What next for Roman Abramovich and sports ownership?
In light of the sanctions faced by the Chelsea owner, The Game columnist Andy Murray takes a look at the changing role of club custodian in sport.
Shane Warne and sport’s greatest everyday geniuses
The outpouring of united emotion after the Australian cricketing legend’s tragic recent death, aged just 52, was testament to one of sport’s great entertainers on and off the field. The Game columnist Andy Murray considers the other maverick sporting geniuses whose everyday appeal charmed fans worldwide.
Super Bowl reaction: Why the NFL’s next episode could be its most important for a generation.
The Game columnist Andy Murray is an NFL rookie and didn’t know what to expect watching the league’s 56th championship game from his sofa in south west London. The beginning of something special, as it turned out…
Remembering Eusebio, the greatest footballer Africa has ever produced
The Mozambique-born forward, who would have turned 80 on January 25, tore up the rule book of what a striker could be in the 1960s with Benfica and adopted country Portugal. The Game columnist Andy Murray recalls what made the Black Pearl so special and so adored…
The sport that matters in 2022
The Game columnist Andy Murray looks at how the pandemic has shaped how we interact with sport and what 2022 has in store for addicts in perpetual need of their fix.
English football’s secret: the scandalous gender pay gap
The Game columnist Andy Murray explores the staggering disparity in prize money in women’s football and how it could affect the game’s exponential rise.
Opinion: Can we truly enjoy a World Cup in Qatar?
One Year to Qatar 2022: In the latest of our series of pieces looking ahead to the World Cup finals, The Game columnist Andy Murray wonders whether it’s possible to detach the tournament itself from the host country’s human rights’ abuses
Newcastle United and football’s curious case of ‘Whataboutery’
The Game columnist Andy Murray looks into how Newcastle United’s Saudi takeover is making fans choose between success and morals.