Sport

• Winners need not apply May 4 2006
  The fans’ alienation is reflected in the call for the new English coach, says Lawrence Parker
• The Best of times
  Lawrence Parker remembers the football legend George Best
  
  
• Circus comes to town July 8 2005
  The Olympics are an ideological mecca for capitalism. Sport can only flourish truly as human expression in a classless society, argues Eddie Ford
• Ancient, modern, rotten August 12 2004
  Phil Kent looks at the history of the Olympic Games
• Money is the name of the game August 5 2004
  The whole transitory saga of Sven Eriksson will be gone in a short while, thinks Patrick Presland. The gigantic cash nexus we call football will remain
• Give censorship the red card April 29 2004
  'Big' Ron Atkinson's recent description of Marcel
  Desailly as a 'thick nigger" was certainly offensive, but Eddie Ford reasserts the demand for freedom of speech, and freedom from censorship.
• World cup 2002: Reclaim the game June 13 2002
  Foot ball needs to be taken out of the hands ofcapitalists and placed under the control of those who play, watch and enjoy it, argues Mike Speed