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  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    Do I have to like football now?

    There is still a choice, but you have to be ruthless. Only total indifference will do

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  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
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    Will Les Bleus tackle France’s far right?

    For three decades the French football team has been the instrument for a national debate on race

    A combined image of Kylian Mbappé and Marine Le Pen
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
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    Everton enters exclusive sale talks with billionaire Friedkin family

    Texas-based owner of AS Roma starts due diligence after collapse of 777 Partners deal

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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
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    Federer: Twelve Final Days — lachrymose lap of honour lacks game

    Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia’s documentary has pathos and PR but little on the great man’s tennis

    A man wearing sporting gear and a white headband stands in an arena and hugs another man; around him men stand applauding
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    Cricket
    US cricket team makes an unlikely run for World Cup glory

    ‘H1-B’ squad has defied the odds to surprise the sport’s fans and Americans alike with their success in T20 tournament

    A montage of US cricket team players Saurabh Netravalkar, Monank Patel and Aaron Jones
  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Sport

    Simon Kuper selects his best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
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    Willie Mays, US baseball star, 1931-2024

    Athletic and versatile player known as the ‘Say Hey Kid’ lit up what many consider the sport’s golden age

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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Olympian Michael Johnson eyes athletics revival with new league

    US champion is commissioner for fan-focused ‘Grand Slam Track’ launching next year

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  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Paris Olympics
    Less meat on menus and fewer new venues: how the Olympics is trying to go green

    Paris event organisers pledge to halve greenhouse gas emissions from London and Rio levels

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The scarcity value of top-class football

    Players are complaining about the number of fixtures. They have a point

    Hong Kong fans were left disappointed after Lionel Messi sat out a friendly in February
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Associazione Calcio Milan SpA
    Italian football prosecutor dismisses case over Elliott’s AC Milan sale

    Decision weakens a separate probe by a Milan prosecutor into hedge fund’s sale to RedBird

    AC Milan’s French forward Olivier Giroud
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    The Aesthete
    Surf legend and artist Tony Caramanico talks taste

    The artist loves Warhols, a banging breakfast and the tropical rock of Jimmy Buffett

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    UEFA Germany 2024
    Europe’s superpower is football not politics

    Favourites France and England and underdogs Ukraine and Georgia play against backdrop of domestic upheaval

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    A series of late storms have drawn obsessive skiers back to the Alps

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
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    Scotland’s footballers return to big stage as Euro 2024 kicks off

    Tartan Army flocks to Munich as men’s side plays first major overseas tournament in quarter of a century

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  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Clipped — basketball scandal becomes a smart sport docudrama

    Six-part series about LA’s loss-prone ‘other basketball team’ uses a real-life controversy to tackle issues surrounding fame, race and power

    A portly man in a blue shirt stares at a hard-faced man in a dark suit who is holding a blond woman’s hand in a locker room
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Godwin by Joseph O’Neill — mining football talent

    A quest to find a brilliant and elusive African soccer player forms the backdrop to O’Neill’s globetrotting novel

    Illustration of a person in a person with pages flying in the air
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Fifa
    Footballers launch legal action over workload and Club World Cup

    Global players’ union faces off with governing body over ‘overloaded and unworkable’ calendar

    Jude Bellingham of England at a training session
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    European prime property
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Germany

    As the country prepares for the European Football Championship, here are some of the most striking homes on the market in host cities

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  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Northern Ireland
    N Ireland’s chance of Euro 28 football boost being ‘squandered’ by lack of funding

    Refurbishment of Belfast’s derelict Casement Park stadium has stalled as UK government financing has failed to materialise

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Premier League
    Aston Villa billionaire owner calls for Premier League spending rules reform

    Nassef Sawiris lambasts opaque penalties faced by clubs for breaches and says system cements status quo

    Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins playing against Premier League rivals Brentford
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
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    The refashioning of the fairway

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  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
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    French football league races to find broadcaster before season kicks off

    Partnership with private equity group CVC has not yet borne fruit, leaving clubs facing cash crunch

    Kylian Mbappé  and Clermont Foot
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    Cricket
    India-Pakistan cricket rivalry comes to Long Island in World Cup clash

    Ticket prices for T20 match-up soar as tournament organisers hope to hook more fans in the US

    India supporters in the stands at the Nassau County stadium during a match against Ireland on June 5
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