There’s something I’ve found observing people all these years that I believe is unique to the Western psyche. Particularly Americans, but it can often also be found in those from other Western countries who have either spent too much time in America itself, or have absorbed much of the progressive and insular attitudes so fashionable...
This marks the first trophy of Portugal manager Roberto Martinez’s international career, after failing to win anything with Belgium’s so-called golden generation. The 2013 FA Cup with Wigan was his last piece of silverware – so could the Nations League save his job? Balague said: “The rumour [that he will be sacked] has come from...
There was a time when serious questions were being asked Gauff’s mentality. With her second serve liable to cough up double faults, and her forehand identified as a weakness, there were debates whether the issues were down to her mentality or technical deficiencies. Some self-doubt appeared as recently as March, with her coach Jean-Christophe Faurel...
Conservationists said they “burst into tears” after ospreys landed on special nesting poles in Devon. The Tamar and Tavy Osprey Project installed the nests on top of 56ft (17m) high telegraph poles in June 2024 on farmland in Warleigh Barton, Plymouth, with the hope it would help the rare birds to breed. A year on...
Khanyisile Ngcobo BBC News, Johannesburg Gallo Images via Getty Images A video clip of a laughing Joshlin Smith, who was six years old when she went missing more than a year ago in South Africa, left most people in the courtroom sobbing. It was shown during a hearing in Saldanha Bay, near Cape Town, ahead...
“I always knew that this was possible if you won a trophy for this club,” the 33-year-old said of the city centre scenes. “But I didn’t expect it to be as good as what it is. “This is what I was always desperate to do. It’s phenomenal. You’ve shared it with your team-mates but now...
Talk to those who have known Eze since he was a boy honing his skills in a small yellow cage in Greenwich, and there is immense pride at how far he has come. “Growing up in south-east London, playing football in cages was a social thing with our mates,” Dajon Golding, a school friend of...
Real Madrid said they considered the “statements made by the referees to be unacceptable”. “These protests, which have surprisingly focused attention on videos from a media outlet protected by freedom of expression, such as Real Madrid TV, deliberately carried out 24 hours earlier against one of the final’s participants, demonstrate, once again, the clear and...
Santos forward Neymar left the field in tears after injuring his leg just 34 minutes into his first start in the Brazilian Serie A Championship this season. The 33-year-old, who returned from six weeks out with a thigh injury against Fluminense on Sunday, was handed a start against Atletico-MG on Wednesday. The former Barcelona forward...