Alex Ferguson: Never to be Fergotten
Barney RonaySir Alex Ferguson changed football – and he's leaving his successor with the hardest of acts to follow, writes Barney Ronay.
'Vampire' gets bloody ban
Barney RonayOn Monday Harlequins wing Tom Williams was banned from rugby for a year for the footling offence of feigning injury.
Ronaldo's goal heading for the hall of fame
Barney RonayHeaders: they're so hot right now and Cristiano Ronaldo's headed goal, in particular, seems to have inspired a folkish reverence in the English media.
Marketers take over the cricket pitch
Barney RonayTest cricket will fill the sporting year, but these might be its last days in the sun. India has reinvented the sport as 'crickertainment'.
Hand-holding and the touchy-feely side of football
Barney RonayMen holding hands, while no longer entirely taboo, is clearly still very funny. Images of Liverpool players hand-in-hand during a team bonding exercise this week drew a predictably jeering response from the Sun, which decorated some damning shots of male glove-on-glove action with sniggering references to "Kopping off" and "a training camp".
