I knew football had changed, but …
My visit to Arsenal's Emirates Stadium felt more like a night at the opera than my childhood trips to watch MotherwellOn Tuesday evening I got the opportunity to do something I'd never done, and had vaguely wanted to do for a long time. I went to a Lon...
Ryan Giggs: celebrity or commodity?
Businesses sell products on the back of stars, so image is allSo, everyone who wants to, and quite a lot of people who don't, now know about Ryan Giggs and Imogen Thomas. What now? Should one write to Giggs's wife, Stacey, with advice on whether she sh...
Where’s the joined-up thinking on the Olympic Stadium?
West Ham Football Club will have to borrow a fortune to make permanent the temporary structure it has boughtSo, the London Olympics are really going to happen then? I'll be buying some tickets and taking the children, in order to provide them with Some...
The Wayne Rooney affair is serious and sad
The England footballer has lost sight of his talent; the woman who brought him down has none of her ownMore palaver over Wayne Rooney and his private life, served up as entertaining scandal but actually enormously serious and sad. Rooney is portrayed ...
Gordon Brown’s anger is the least of his problems | Deborah Orr
If the prime minister had more admirable qualities, his temper would be tolerated
What a psychological double-bind Gordon Brown must have been caught in over these past few days. When things go wrong, everyone now knows, the prime minister tends to succumb to fury, bellowing at whoever happens to...
The myth of ‘race’ was invented by racism, and racism keeps it growing | Deborah Orr