PAUL SAFFER on a war hero, Versailles negotiator and founder of the Kentucky Derby, who also won 1500m gold. Continue reading
Category Archives: Sport
Obscure Olympians 3: City of London Police
PAUL SAFFER celebrates a team of flat-footed Edwardian tuggers. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 2: CBK Beachcroft
Continuing his salute to forgotten British Olympic heroes, PAUL SAFFER remembers a cricketing comedian. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 1: Launceston Elliot
In the first of a new series, PAUL SAFFER salutes a weightlifting, rope-climbing, sprinting holder of the British discus record. Continue reading
Noisy neighbours: Nationalism and sport in the UK
PAUL SAFFER explores sporting rivalries between the constituent nations of the UK. Continue reading
Calling all cliches: Need to know
…and that tells you all you need to know. Continue reading
Not finished on a double
PAUL SAFFER explains why there are two separate world championships in the only sport that celebrates hedonism and arithmetic: darts. Continue reading
Hill’s striking heyday
PAUL SAFFER looks back at the 1961 memoir of union firebrand and bearded sporting hipster Jimmy Hill. Continue reading
