Sport

In 1919 a series of special international football matches were held between the British home nations. They were not to honour or remember the dead but to celebrate victory in the Great War. For all

The Mexican wave: seemingly bound up with the world of modern sports and television, my work as a travel historian has recently brought me face to face with a much older instance of this clever

Thirty years of hurt has turned into fifty, and England are still waiting for football to come home. But English football fans have been mourning the death of football as they know it since well

The run-up to the EU Referendum has taken place in the wake of the completion of two major annual projects for achieving a cultural peace in Europe: the Eurovision Song Contest and the UEFA Champions’

A search for #MuirfieldGolfClub on Twitter provides a telling insight into popular reaction to a recent vote at the Muirfield Golf Club in East Lothian, Scotland, where members failed to rally the two-thirds majority which would have

Football is a religion, so they say, and nowhere more so than in Brazil, where players and fans alike prayed (unsuccessfully, as it turns out) for their team’s victory. But even before television rights were