Football’s ugly anger management
Arsène Wenger's tirade at the referee after Arsenal lost to Barcelona was just the latest outburst from a profession whose members are supposed to be role modelsAnother day, another ugly outburst on the football pitch. On Tuesday night it was the tur...
Is Prince Harry growing up?
His trip to Africa has shown a more mature and responsible side to the princeIn 1997, when the 12-year-old Prince Harry walked behind his mother's coffin, he held the nation's sadness in his tightly balled fists – as well as our expectations. Who wou...
Karren Brady: ‘Women have brains and uteruses, and are able to use both’
The West Ham vice-chair talks about her new role on The Apprentice and what it's like to be a female football executive
When it comes to self-control, the businesswoman Karren Brady clearly has a lot to teach us. Here's one case in point. Four years ago, then aged 36,...
Why do women want to be Wags?
Despite recent scandals involving John Terry and Ashley Cole, many young women still dream of marrying a footballer and living a life of permatanned luxury. But is life as a Wag all it is cracked up to be?
Nicola Tappenden was a 14-year-old schoolgirl, living in Croydon, when a...


Terry, Bridge and the art of holding a grudge | Kira Cochrane
Terry versus Bridge, Brown versus Blair again . . . What can we learn from these spats about the art of holding a grudge?
For anyone who enjoys seeing bitterness and bile traded in public, who likes the glint and gleam of a metaphorical knife being wielded, the past...