CAMBRIDGE

"There has been a long history of sexism towards female NFL fans. Whether it is Cris Collinsworth (ex-Cincinnati Bengals player turned NBC commentator) patronisingly claiming to be ‘blown away’ at the level of understanding some women he met had of the game, or the lack of decisive action multiple NFL teams have taken over reports of their players sexually harassing women, football has failed time and time again to be a welcoming space for female fans. The sudden interest in football from Swift’s predominantly female fan base has offered the NFL a valuable chance to deviate from history"

"I stared at the poles raised on the platform before me and began to truly understand why it was so hard for people to recognise that a sport had emerged from this"

"Predicting six sporting events that could happen this year, and that will bring the emotions that only sports can bring"

“Orwell’s claim that ‘international level sport is frankly mimic warfare’ does feel hyperbolic, but just the briefest scan of its historical context  – the essay was written in 1945, on the back of a Soviet football team’s tour of Britain – can account for his strident wariness of sport’s hyper-nationalistic and combative tendencies.”

"Is the collision of sport and politics inevitable? Can its intertwinement be avoided?"

"it is truly worth asking whether illegal streaming is a deserving candidate for criminalisation or simply a symptom of a flawed system"