Sport in London

14 Aug 2012

It has been a fabulous fortnight and more. I have enjoyed every bit of these Games, not only savouring the athletic endeavours but also the grand venues, which provided an aura of magnificence to...

9:13PM

Sebastian Coe's next prize could well be IOC's top job

13 Aug 2012

Legend has it that the London 2012 Olympic bid came about over a morning cup of coffee in the canteen of the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland some nine years ago.

9:28PM

For openers, we're left with a rather empty feeling

30 Jul 2012

The bombastic London 2012 opening ceremony is continuing to cause many a wrinkled brow in international online lecture rooms, where a global army of sinologists are earnestly debating the...

10:37PM

Sleepless Chelsea youths have Munich on their minds

20 May 2012

Chelsea Reserves manager Dermot Drummy was hoping Lucas Piazon and his teammates would be playing with a smile on their faces today at the HKFC Citibank International Soccer Sevens.

3:20PM

FA Cup final looks likely to be cagey, low-scoring affair

5 May 2012

Chelsea v Liverpool in tonight's FA Cup final has both a sense of the conventional and the unfamiliar.

2:14PM

SPORTING chance

18 Apr 2012

All eyes will be on London this summer as the British capital hosts the 2012 Olympic Games.

12:52PM

Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Difficult to see how QPR can stop United's charge

A month ago, when Manchester City led neighbours United by two points, it seemed inconceivable the English Premier League title race would be virtually decided by early April.

12:07PM

Abramovich puzzle becomes deeper with each manager

'A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' - Winston Churchill's famous quote about Russia's intentions in the second world war as easily applies now to the actions of Roman Abramovich,...

9:40AM

Chelsea no longer part of Premier League's duopoly

Chelsea and Manchester United have dominated the English Premier League championship for so long that it seems strange only one of the teams are in the title hunt as they go into tomorrow's...

6:38AM

Balance of power puts the focus on Man City v Spurs

At the start of the season Arsenal v Manchester United would have been the pick of tomorrow's Super Sunday showdowns in the English Premier League, but such has been the shift in the balance of...

5:50AM

No beating about the Bush for Hughes at QPR

Things are likely to get worse before they get better as new manager Mark Hughes tries to turn around the Asian-owned Queens Park Rangers.

5:19AM

United, Gunners turn to old hands hoping for miracles

'Out with the old, in with the new' is the traditional refrain associated with the new year in England, but clearly it has been lost on Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger.

5:19AM