Matt Slater This column realises it is showing its age by moaning about how short football’s summer break has become — but has there actually been one this year? At the Olympic Games, the men’s football tournament, which feels like the end of a very long 2023-24 campaign, finishes in Paris on Friday. The gold […]
Michael Cox, Oliver Kay and more For more than three decades, the Champions League has featured groups of four teams battling it out to reach the competition’s latter stages. But after this week’s round of matches, the format as we know it will be gone, to be replaced by a completely different structure. The setup […]
Matt Slater, Luke Smith and more With investments in Formula 1, sailing, cycling, rugby union, football and “challenges”, INEOS has come a long way in 30 years, when owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe took out a mortgage on his home to buy a BP chemicals company. It already counts Nice in France Ligue 1, Lausanne in […]