October 24, 2026
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Sports

Sport is more than competition: it reflects the ambitions, loyalties and arguments of public life. This collection brings together Standpoint’s writing on sporting culture, major events and the ideas and institutions that shape sport.
Down But Not Out
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Down But Not Out

August 26, 2014
Peter Oborne recounts cricket’s progress in Pakistan with the meticulousness and dedication such a rich and unlikely story deserves
In Walton's Footsteps
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In Walton’s Footsteps

December 18, 2013
The second-most frequently reprinted book in the English language is a 350-year-old fishing manual set in a bucolic Tottenham. Haringey never looked so good
Jocks Away
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Jocks Away

December 17, 2012
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy’s Jewish Jocks features some real life He-Menschen, but also a host of anti-jocks: tennis’s first transexual player and the
Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion.
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Olympian Angst

August 29, 2012
‘Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion’
Editorial image for "Bowled Over" — From Havana to Kigali, cricket's good-news stories can be found in the…
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Bowled Over

April 24, 2012
From Havana to Kigali, cricket’s good-news stories can be found in the least likely places In 1895, Winston Churchill, then a journalist covering the
Editorial image for "Real Men Don't Use Brylcreem" — Public displays of emotion, sequins, ear studs and nancy boy's clothes…
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Real Men Don’t Use Brylcreem

April 24, 2012
Public displays of emotion, sequins, ear studs and nancy boy’s clothes: where have all the men’s men gone? You may remember a few years

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