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Dec 11, 2019

Is the Conservatives’ plan based on backing Fleetwood Town. It seems niche | Max Rushden

Andy Pilley’s Twitter exhortation to fans took sport out of its bubble and plonked it at the heart of the campaign battleThank God for the sports section. You’ve read the politics. You’ve found out again how depressing the world is and now you get the escapism. Unless of course you’ve come straight to the sport. Get the fun out of the way and hopefully you’ll have to get back to work before you’re forced to read the serious news.There is of course no link at all between sport and politics. Both exist in entirely separate vacuums. And that is how it should remain. As a sports broadcaster who has ventured a few – hopefully informed but probably biased – political...

Jan 08, 2018

FA Cup: talking points from the action in the third round

Mark Robins’ eye-catching Coventry deserve their headlines, Liverpool have a bargain in Andrew Robertson and Wolves are already good enough for top flightAmid all the hoopla over the departing Mark Hughes, it is right to take a moment to praise Coventry City. They were deserved winners of the third-round tie at the Ricoh Arena, despite giving up the greater number of chances to the visitors. The Sky Blues played with a determination and energy you might expect of a team assuming the David role in a Goliath encounter. But they were also calm on the ball and often quite cute on it, too. Their play was all the more striking, given the starting XI had an average age of 24...