Sport

In the end football didn’t ‘come home’ – nor was it meant to. Euro 2020 was not designed as a celebration of England’s long association with the codified form of the game in the way

The World Cup matters to Colombia more than most countries. As a country with a reputation for violence and drugs, football is a chance for Colombia to present a favourable face to the world based

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’