James Gheerbrant

Last week, at the World Championships in Eugene, Sydney McLaughlin ran the 400m hurdles in a time that no other woman has ever got close to. Rivals trailed, his

Not so long ago it wasn’t uncommon to hear the contention that being a mid-ranking Premier League team was the most boring of all possible football worlds. To b

There he was again, looking tanned and lustrous, blond highlights bouncing and glinting in the sun, fluoro stripes on his shirt bringing to mind a stolen kiss o

In the summer of 2001, the creatives of Wieden and Kennedy sat around a table in the advertising agency’s Amsterdam offices and pondered how to translate the ma

During the summer, it had been possible to misread a slight surliness in Thomas Tuchel, to view Chelsea’s recruitment as high-grade but a little haphazard, to s

Kylian Mbappé stands in a sodden blue shirt, under a sky murmurous with thunder, his hands nestled in the cleft of his armpits. He’s just scored the goal to cli

Coming into this World Cup, three teams boasted impressive unbeaten runs going back more than a year: Argentina, Brazil and Holland. Now, after the two South American nations suffered defeats during the group stage, only one of those streaks remains unbroken.

When Manchester City play Newcastle United at the beginning of next month, it will be the 800th match in Pep Guardiola’s career in top-level management (not cou

Hard not to contrast German with Jude Bellingham, who left his adaptability behind in the Bundesliga and is now targeting a Ballon d’Or as Real’s regular No 10

Inspired by Axel Disasi’s comical effort against Leicester City in the FA Cup at the weekend, Times writers pick out their favourite own goals