- Sidelines, Zeitgeist
The Infantino Model: Football Sold Off in Pieces
In New York, after the final, someone will cut up the turf at MetLife Stadium into little souvenirs. You can love it or hate it, but that single detail says everything about how Gianni Infantino runs football.
- Screenplay, Zeitgeist
Every Time Sam Neill Made Us Feel at Home
Sam Neill played the most diverse characters without ever losing the rare ability to make each of them feel strangely familiar.
- Lisztomania, Zeitgeist
Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart and the immortality of an era
Some icons become immortal because of what they create. In Bonnie Tyler's case, two notes are enough to bring an entire decade back to life.
- Sidelines
Is This the Worst Brazil Squad Ever?
Choose your fighter: Igor Thiago, Pedro or Fred?
- Zeitgeist
David Hockney, or on looking
He died at 88. Platinum hair, round glasses, cigarette in hand. He had painted more swimming pools than anyone else and believed the world was beautiful, if only people bothered to see it.
- Sidelines
7a0, a stupidly simple game you can't stop playing
A dead-simple game that's almost impossible to put down and very easy to return to. Zero skill, barely any strategy, but plenty of dopamine when Garrincha and Ronaldinho end up on the same team.
- Lisztomania, Zeitgeist
So, should Geese be loved or hated?
There’s a band that has almost monopolised musical discussions in recent months. As usual, there’s no room for balance or middle ground in the public debate.
- Zeitgeist
Ferrari Luce has Alpha males rattled
Few things expose fragile masculinity quite like an electric Ferrari with soft curves.
- Sidelines
Understanding Neymar
At 34, Neymar was long considered the finest footballer on earth behind the transcendent figures of Messi and Ronaldo, yet his inclusion in the World Cup squad comes as a shock, a development few dared to hope for. Why?
- Sidelines
The Europa League Is in Love with Emery
Unai Emery has won the Europa League for the fifth time, with a third different club, twelve years after the first. An attempt to explain this peculiar phenomenon.
