Among the reasons why Sepp Blatter clung onto the leadership of FIFA are the 700 footballs, a technical centre and the federation headquarters that the world governing body has funded…
IT is not a novel idea: which interesting personality would you want to share a meal with? From 2012, The New York Times has run a weekly column ‘By the…
Quick question for football fans: who’s the captain of Pakistan’s football team? Give up? Don’t worry, because there is no national team currently, after the legal disputes that have paralysed…
The reaction to last week’s sports-related arrests in Switzerland has been reminiscent in some ways of the aftermath of a football match. There has been jubilation in some quarters, accompanied…
STATES, particularly authoritarian ones, tend to shoot messengers bearing bad news. So it came as no surprise that Hussain Al Mulla, the Qatari deputy labour minister, threatened to sue the…
One should always heed omens. The Ancients did. Our cricket captain Shahid Afridi should have done on March 19. It was a day too close to the Ides of March.…
