It has been interesting to watch recent debates sparked by Trinidad and Tobago forward Kenwyne Jones’ rather public dispute with his employer, Stoke City. Jones was fined two weeks’ wages by Stoke manager Mark Hughes for informing him, by text, that he would not attend his club’s recent fixture against …

It is very rare for a single human being to unite two totally diverse nations; even temporarily. Politicians try to do it by creating complicated trading partnerships that largely exist outside the day-to-day existence of its citizens. Royal families tried in the past by marrying their children to form international alliances, …

Without warning about 20 years ago, I encountered an adversary the likes of which I’d never known had even existed before. It nearly finished me. My marriage was heading onto the rocks, my career hit a brick wall and my social life disappeared, since I was too afraid to venture …

Letter to the Editor: I am writing to express my disappointment in the support offered so far to Akeem Adams, the 22-year-old national footballer who suffered a massive heart attack in Hungary, where he plays for Ferencvaros. After the removal of his damaged heart, Akeem was placed in a coma …

As a lifelong football supporter, I tend to believe in omens. For example, my son and I soon felt that if we saw a wedding car on the way to Priestfield Stadium, Gillingham would win. If we saw two, Gillingham would win by two clear goals. Bizarrely, we felt this …

I wasn’t there that day; I couldn’t get a ticket. Tickets for the F.A. Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield were like gold dust. But for football supporters in UK, 15th April, 1989 was our 9/11. I was working in a busy shopping centre …