Stories with the Tag: Opinion

IMAGO / Colorsport | Alex Higgins (Northern Ireland) talks with TV Presenter Peter West. Benson & Hedges Championship snooker 1981.

Drugs, drinking Chanel No5 and an axe-wielding Oliver Reed – how snooker tore up the rulebook to dominate sport and the music charts in the 1980s.

28. April 2022

This year’s world championships started on April 16 and will conclude on May 2nd. The Game columnist Andy Murray looks back at the sport’s 1980s heyday when 18.5million people stayed up to watch the 1985 black-ball final.

What next for Roman Abramovich and sports ownership?

13. April 2022

In light of the sanctions faced by the Chelsea owner, The Game columnist Andy Murray takes a look at the changing role of club custodian in sport.

Shane Warne and sport’s greatest everyday geniuses.

23. March 2022

The outpouring of united emotion after the Australian cricketing legend’s tragic recent death, aged just 52, was testament to one of sport’s great entertainers on and off the field. The Game columnist Andy Murray considers the other maverick sporting geniuses whose everyday appeal charmed fans worldwide.