James Gheerbrant

"When I was six, I told my father, 'Your train has taken the bad way. I will take the good way.'" This interview with Enzo Le Fée by @mhardysport is well worth your time: https://t.co/W6sEEguZty

RT @TimesSport: 🎙️ The Game podcast 🎙️ 🏆 Crystal Palace win their first major trophy ⁉️ Where do Man City go now? 🥊 Five sides battling f…

I can't recall a final that's offered such a contrast in tone, messaging & narrative energy as Ange's pugnacious optimism vs Amorim's ascetic adherence to the truth. Rarely has one game felt so much like a referendum on how to be the public face of a club: https://t.co/57cLfyNe8p

Mikel Arteta has built a v good, highly methodical team. They win through control; when they don't, it's often things outwith their control: a weird red, an odd ball, a keeper on 🔥. Are they too easily destabilised by the inherent randomness of football? https://t.co/IV38UPxx2M

Jürgen Klopp always understood that football is a business of stories. How does his own story end? This week’s column: https://t.co/K0RudH47r9

Really good reporting from Owen here

owenslotTheTimes @owenslot

My special report, here, on the disgrace of the UAE and how it became the Wild West of the transfer market for young African footballers. https://t.co/9trDhnz4nP

With Jack Wilshere taking his first steps in management, Fabregas showing huge promise at Como, Arteta in the CL semis, found myself wondering if Wenger’s misery years might be the most fertile ground for coaches out of the whole Fergie/Wenger dual dynasty https://t.co/sayn0v9DAj

The brotherhood of cricket is beautifully captured in this lovely interview with Andrew Flintoff by @Athersmike, accompanied by a superb portrait by @MarcAspland: https://t.co/zfqdVIaLUh

“In McIlroy, we see part of ourselves, humans with things to overcome.” Worth savouring every word of @DavidWalshST’s beautifully written final piece from Augusta. Wise, vivid and full of life: https://t.co/SwqlPOyERY

I wrote about Thomas Müller and the potential end of one of the great one-club careers. His gift as a player was to find space that no-one could find, and if he goes, he'll leave a space that no-one else could leave: https://t.co/1thGDQOpMP

RT @ricktimes: Really enjoyed sitting down with Brooks Koepka - on enjoying the pain, yes men, fist fights. https://t.co/cJvgvM5oeo

RT @JamesGheerbrant: Nigeria have won 0 of 4 in World Cup qualifying. Lose to Rwanda today and their American dream may be over. Enter Vict…

Nigeria have won 0 of 4 in World Cup qualifying. Lose to Rwanda today and their American dream may be over. Enter Victor Osimhen, Napoli's exiled king. I wrote about why he needs a hero moment; & why the World Cup, stage of heroes & fairytales, needs him: https://t.co/6eCKreo7dQ