Can football finally overcome its problem with homophobia?
Blackpool fan Joe Cogan discusses professional footballer Jake Daniels’ recent momentous decision to come out as gay.
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Neil Warnock – A Marmite Figure of English (and Welsh) Football
“Somehow, some way, he would always manage to get the job done”
Oliver Jervis looks back on the long and illustrious career of Neil Warnock.
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Durham Women FC shift to full-time training model
“Full-time training is viewed by the club as the natural next step on the road to professionalism”.
George Simms reports on the latest development at Durham Women FC.
Umran Malik or Arshdeep Singh: Who should India take to the T20 World Cup?
Sanjay Suri breaks down one of the big questions facing Indian cricket ahead of the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia.
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Trevs retain Women’s Football Floodlit Cup alongside South Owlesses
Joe Harston reports on South/Trevs’ Women’s Football Floodlit Cup Final win over Butler.
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The myth of an ‘African style’: how prejudice still lines football discourse
“We must leave our expectations at the door, lest we miss out on appreciating the unexpected”: Luke Power discusses the dangers of lazy stereotyping in football discourse in the wake of England’s friendly win over Ivory Coast.
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Collingwood deny Trevs double to take home Men’s Football Floodlit Cup
Joe Harston reports on a Men’s Football Floodlit Cup victory for Collingwood.
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Sport in a time of war: the predicament of Russian athletes
Anna Noble assesses the sanctions posed on Russian and Belarusian athletes by sporting organisations.
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What do we do about football’s money addiction?
“Sport should be a recluse from the strains of geopolitics, not a vector for the dissemination of the ideals of one group or another”: Ben Pawlowski discusses football’s ownership problem in the wake of the Chelsea-Newcastle clash.
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We race as one – without the women
“Christian Horner claimed that young girls’ growing interest in the sport is due to ‘good-looking’ drivers”: Duru Akin discusses how women are viewed in F1.
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