The Hollywood Pass
Jack Charlton, the legendary England centre-back, was having a drink at a hotel bar one night. Just then, the England manager, Sir Alf Ramsey, came in through the door. The two began talking and Charlton, who had been given his international debut by Ramsey at the age of 29, asked the manager why he had […]
Fabian Ruiz, in pink shorts and a beach shirt, was sitting on the railing of a boat, his sunglasses framing his eyes as he gazed at something in the distance. Behind him, one could see the masts of several small boats parked at a distance from his own on the vast expanse of emerald blue […]
In 1938, Katherine Hepburn was one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. She had already won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1934, and was widely acclaimed as one of the finest actors of her generation. But at just 31 years of age, she had also been labelled ‘box office poison’. In print. On May 3, […]
As Argentina prepare to take on France in the 2022 Qatar World Cup final, the Albiceleste captain Lionel Messi has the opportunity to claim the one prize that’s missing from his mantelpiece, and emulate the man whose trail he has been touted to follow all his career: Diego Maradona. Regardless of the result of Sunday’s […]
Two days before the 1992 cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand began, Pakistan captain Imran Khan was a broken man. Khan, an allrounder, had torn the tendons in his right shoulder. “I was in no condition to bat or bowl or even do any fielding. I played with pain killers and cortisone injections […]
“It’s football. Football, football, football. I don’t think he has any other interest in life.” That’s Sven-Göran Eriksson describing Roberto Mancini in the podcast ‘The Big Interview With Graham Hunter’. Eriksson, who coached Mancini for 9 years — first at Sampdoria and then at Lazio – must know what he was talking about. However, if […]