FOOTBALL
November 2013
Is Wayne Rooney today’s Raphael? If we treated art with the same seriousness as we do sport, our visual culture could flourish again
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July/August 2013
Elisha Abas played for years in the Israeli Premier League but when his football career was over he returned to his other great talent: the piano
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July/August 2012
'In 1987 the majority of England cricketers were state-educated. Now most professional sportsmen are educated privately — including black children'
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January/February 2012
The German film Der Ganz Grosse Traum shows the delightful story of the first Anglo-German conflict (football match, that is)
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