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‘I could wipe the floor with you, man’: the exhibition on female football fans’ experiences

Prof Stacey Pope’s showcase highlights how women have always been required to defend and justify their fandom “You can be the thickest bloke and you still think you know more about football than a woman,” reads a line from Newcastle fan named Jo around halfway into a new exhibition on women in football culture. “[They]

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Welcome to The Hotspot, our new newsletter on sport’s relationship with the climate crisis

We delve into the best stories on how sport is changing around the climate crisis, and what can be done to navigate a way forward To subscribe to The Hotspot, just visit this page Nelson Mandela said: “Sport can create hope where once there was only despair.” Too optimistic? In 2026, almost certainly. Sport is

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The Breakdown | Will Bath or anyone else stop the Bordeaux Bègles juggernaut in Europe?

Holders may have more style but Bath showed in their arm wrestle with Saints they can go the distance with anybody Last week Northampton’s director of rugby, Phil Dowson, made an interesting comparison between boxing and rugby. He suggested there was a decent chance his side’s Champions Cup quarter-final against Bath would prove good viewing

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Nicky Henderson on Constitution Hill and the yips: ‘The best jumper you’ll ever see and he lost it’

The venerated trainer could not find a guru in the world to cure one of the greatest hurdlers in history but a surprise switch to the Flat promises a career swansong Nicky Henderson is 75 years old and, after almost half a century of training horses, he has seen everything in the strange and compelling

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