Harry Redknapp can face down the taxman, but most workers cannot | Phillip Inman
Without independent reviews or access to tax records, people can easily have their lives wrecked by a wrongful HMRC probeHarry Redknapp's accuser, HMRC, is on a mission to tackle tax evasion and its more slippery cousin, tax avoidance. After years as a...
In most countries the Harry Redknapp case wouldn’t have reached a jury | Simon Jenkins
Redknapp's was the latest in a series of show trials – even if he had been guilty it could have been settled with a handshakeNow for 'Arry the Movie, a tale of fear and loathing in darkest Poole. It boasts a rags-to-riches hero – Harry Redknap...
In praise of … foreign managers | Editorial
The pendulum which has now swung against foreign managers of national teams once swung equally strongly in favour of themIt will clearly not be long before Harry Redknapp or some other Englishman is appointed as the next manager of the England football...
In Argentinian football, the Falklands legacy makes waves | Marcela Mora y Araujo
The Argentina Football Association has ramped up the rhetoric by naming the 2012 season the Crucero General BelgranoThe name of Rene Favaloro, an eminent Argentinian cardiologist best known for inventing the bypass, was bestowed upon the 2011 Argentini...
The Redknapp affair: City limits | Editorial
The City of London police and HMRC will be red-faced at their failure to make a charge of relatively small-scale evasion stickEconomic crime is never easy to prove in court: tracking down evidence clear enough, and persuasive enough, to convince a lay ...
Fabio Capello failed to understand why John Terry’s trial matters | Hugh Muir
England's landscape has changed since Stephen Lawrence was killed. Allegations of racism are taken seriously here nowSo there goes Fabio Capello, and maybe that's that for our bold experiment with foreign managers. It wasn't such a problem that Fabio i...
In praise of … Heart of Midlothian | Editorial
Let us hope passion and poetry prevail for this uniquely named club as it faces the possibility of liquidationSurely there is no more romantically named football club in these islands than Heart of Midlothian. No other club is distinguished by being na...
Fred Goodwin’s evisceration is so predictable | Kevin McKenna
We Scots have a sorry tendency to turn on those whom we once happily cheered alongAmong those who have come to define Scotland's recent history, Ally MacLeod and Fred Goodwin do not at first appear to have much in common. One of them suffered from peri...
Unthinkable? England team spirit | Editorial
Perhaps it is time for Fabio Capello to hand over the reins to someone better versed in English ways - but who?It is a challenge which faces all modern-thinking chief executives today: how to mould a group of strong individuals into an even stronger co...
John Terry’s captaincy is irrelevant – England will be hopeless whatever | Marina Hyde
The football captaincy is a role less significant than regimental goat. By obsessing over it we keep setting ourselves up for a fallFor possibly only the second time in its history, the England football captaincy has become fleetingly relevant. You'll ...
The Sports Charter shines a welcome light on homophobia in football | Amal Fashanu
No British professional footballer has come out as gay since my uncle, Justin Fashanu. Hopefully this charter will change thatAfter what feels like an eternity since the tragic death of my uncle, Justin Fashanu, almost 14 years ago, there are signs tha...
The day I applied for the England manager’s job | Mark Damazer