Jayaditya Gupta
Academies, where players are coached from an early age, are the best bet for India to score
His second stint in Washington has allowed Ed Luce the proximity and objectivity to observe the changes in American society...
I never saw Wasim Raja play. Not even in that memorable Eden Gardens Test in 1979-80, when Pakistan livened up a dead match with the threat of an impr
The rooms themselves are bare, as her father decreed. Bare, but not empty, for every corner of Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam is filled with a terrib
Once nationalisms clashed at the World Cup. This year countries looked within
A strange tournament, strangely satisfying too, though ending on a disappointing note
Speculation over provocation that saw Zidane head-butt opponent, only to be sent off; some say Materazzi called him ‘terrorist’
England has been knocked out in the quarter finals three tournaments running. That’s a sign of stagnation...
Watching the German team on Saturday — through the forest of excited, animated Germans...
There was one sight at the end of the France-Portugal match that redeemed one’s faith in the basic goodness of footballers.
On Sunday, Zinedine Zidane will walk into the sunset from soccer’s greatest stage
The dream is over but Germany’s biggest test is now: Can it play host as well as it has even though it’s out of the party? It’s early days but the ans
Its players were drenched and exhausted by the end of overtime, bending over when the ball was not in play, the muscles in their legs drained and cram
Coming out of retirement, Zidane, Makelele and Thuram get their chance to recreate the magical past...
The hotels that I’ve stayed in over the past month have been, to borrow from Forrest Gump...
The stakes could never be higher for Cristiano Ronaldo than on Wednesday. He plays the game of his life and it could be his ticket out of Old Trafford
While the rest of the world has suffered agonising withdrawal symptoms over the past couple of days...
There are so many issues surrounding Tuesday’s semi-final that it’s hard to figure out the football amid all this.
The Germans have to make up for the loss with less affluent Portuguese, Italians and less exuberant French; alternatively, the hosts will have to go p
Exactly two weeks after he scored the best goal of the tournament, Esteban Cambiasso was given the task of scoring one far more important.
The governing body’s marking finds each one of them scoring very high marks, much higher than in 2002, from second round onwards
A connoiseur’s delight: Former champs, arch rivals, in top form, big names and big occasion
I thought three weeks in Germany would have prepared me for most things. Trust Berlin to test, yet again, my skills at coping with the way things are
The World Cup gets down to serious business tomorrow, the wheat separated from the chaff; the four quarter-final matches offer an intriguing mix of ol
Jean Varraud would have been happy with Zinedine Zidane’s performance on Tuesday night. Zidane became the latest player in this World Cup to confound
