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# EXTRACT

All time
'Hamilton became a symbol of a post-racial Britain without ever being fully embraced by the British public'
16 Jun 2020
3.2k
7
'Today - agitated. Tomorrow - positive': Writers share their pandemic diaries
The Stinging Fly
14 Jun 2020
8.3k
1
'Roy Keane said something on TV about the interview being flat... Lisa took it to heart'
9 Jun 2020
29.8k
4
'At that moment – that very moment – I knew I needed to get out of professional football'
4 Jun 2020
10.1k
4
'I had turned 37 nine days before the Twickenham defeat, and suddenly I felt old'
2 Jun 2020
7.5k
12
Extract: The inside story of Steorn, the Celtic Tiger start-up that couldn't
Barry J Whyte
30 May 2020
22.6k
11
'I wasn’t even on the bench – I’d been bombed out completely'
28 May 2020
11.6k
11
Muhammad Ali and the mafia
26 May 2020
11.8k
0
'We lost because we were so dazzled by the wonder of their kit that we couldn’t possibly concentrate'
19 May 2020
6.4k
3
'Protecting the 2012 Games by covering up a scandal was more important than protecting Londoners'
14 May 2020
8.4k
3
'The rush home after school to read Ceefax pages 302–312... This was my generation’s internet'
12 May 2020
4.6k
0
'I raced the entire year with that broken foot, and had no surgery until after the season'
7 May 2020
8.9k
1
'If you didn’t make a conscious decision to go home alone, you probably wouldn’t'
5 May 2020
42.9k
10
'He wanted to do other things with his life for a year or two'
30 Apr 2020
7.0k
4
'By 2016 foreign owners had bought, or held significant shares in, 15 of the Premier League’s 20 teams'
28 Apr 2020
3.6k
1
'For him, dark glasses were invented to protect a man from other people’s eyes'
21 Apr 2020
10.7k
4
'He was an old man at 41' - Muhammad Ali and the cost of being a boxing great
16 Apr 2020
41.6k
5
'A few days before Heather passed away she said to me, ‘If Woosie calls you, you have to play.’'
14 Apr 2020
10.8k
1
'He was untethered from his family by a narcissism that fed his self-destructive addictions'
9 Apr 2020
13.9k
3
'Somebody called it the last of the great drinking tours'
7 Apr 2020
21.8k
6
'There are players who to this day struggle to cope with the defeat'
2 Apr 2020
14.0k
15
A day in the life of Pep Guardiola
31 Mar 2020
12.5k
0
'The stress of hanging up my boots and having no direction or purpose in life, my hair fell out'
5 Jan 2020
20.5k
3
'No cash register. Peggy’s Leg. Big Time bar. Dairy Milk. A tin of Coke': 1970s memories of Dublin
Fr Bryan Shortall
4 Jan 2020
55.2k
33
Truth and Lies: The story of Liverpool versus The Sun newspaper
4 Jan 2020
23.3k
19
'300 million were regularly tuning in' - Inside Africa's obsession with Premier League football
3 Jan 2020
11.6k
9
'His whole story is a lie. You know he didn’t have it as hard as he tries to sell'
Updated 3 Jan 2020
139k
75
'The stress of hanging up my boots and having no direction or purpose in life, my hair fell out'
31 Dec 2019
15.6k
8
Truth and Lies: The story of Liverpool versus The Sun newspaper
28 Dec 2019
21.1k
16
'300 million were regularly tuning in' - Inside Africa's obsession with Premier League football
27 Dec 2019
13.2k
3
'The hunger strikes had begun just as Barry McGuigan started training for his professional debut'
25 Dec 2019
17.0k
9
The rise of ultra running: 'I am never doing anything as stupid as that ever again, I say to myself'
25 Dec 2019
19.6k
24
Buck Whaley: The Irish adventurer's feverish Christmas
David Ryan
25 Dec 2019
21.6k
6
'Everything, my clothes, my backpack, my headscarf, is stuck to me with sweat'
24 Dec 2019
5.5k
0
'One of the older lads looked over and said: What the hell is Michael Owen even doing in here?’
23 Dec 2019
60.7k
26
Extract: Patrick McCabe revisits the Butcher Boy with his new book
Pat McCabe
14 Nov 2019
7.3k
1
'Health and safety rules did not apply...': Life on the road touring - and cooking for - Stockton's Wing
Mike Hanrahan
13 Nov 2019
14.8k
1
Extract: From 'litir' to 'meisce'... A history of Ireland in 10 (or so) words
Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Gregory Toner
12 Nov 2019
16.5k
6
Extract: 'Birds are vessels for a lasting happiness that can be hard to find in other avenues of life'
Conor W. O'Brien
9 Nov 2019
13.4k
1
A Sunday Miscellany essay by Lisa McInerney: 'Setting the scene'
Lisa McInerney
27 Oct 2019
11.1k
2
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