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In London's Hackney, Julia Belluz discovers a strange sport with a serious social mission ...  read more »

Though hardly a football enthusiast, The Economist's Africa correspondent heads to South Africa to "be a part of African history" and finds himself impressed ...  read more »

Big World Cup matches are liable to be decided on penalties. But are they really the best tie-breaker? Patrick Barclay has a better idea ...  read more »

What happens when an anarchist creates rules for football? Laura Spinney heads to Switzerland's International Centre for Research on Anarchism to find out ...  read more »

Once, it was only a game. Now sport is a never-ending drama, a soap opera watched all over the world. Tim de Lisle works out how it happened ...  read more »

In 35 years South African football has gone from the wilderness to staging the World Cup. Raymond Whitaker remembers life as a white follower of a largely black sport, and returns to Johannesburg to meet his boyhood hero ...  read more »

Ed Smith had a theory that sprinters—like greyhounds and racehorses—were not getting any faster. But then came Bolt ...  read more »

It’s an unstoppable buzzword. But has professionalism gone too far? As a sportsman, Ed Smith saw it backfire at first hand; now he sees this in other fields, from “The Wire” to the banks ...  read more »

When Manchester United picked an ex-England star off the scrapheap, it made a great plot twist. But Ed Smith argues that our love of a good story is now getting in the way of sporting sense ...  read more »

After four decades as a Queens Park Rangers supporter, Anthony Gardner finally goes to see them play. It turns out it is a strange thing to suddenly be among fellow true believers ...  read more »