📸 Ezra Shaw

‘I had a lot to do with the press in a lot of countries, but especially in England. So why not tell my truth?’ Sven-Göran Eriksson talks about terminal illness, scandal, England, Notts County and more with Simon Hattenstone theguardian.com/football/artic…

This is great by Jonny Weeks, with the photographers behind the most iconic images of the Olympics theguardian.com/sport/article/…

Mikel Arteta’s maverick Arsenal team-building efforts (and Pep on Brat summer), courtesy of David Squires theguardian.com/football/pictu…

Abby Hunt injured her knee last October playing for Stoke City. She's still waiting for her surgery, after an initial 22-week wait for an MRI scan on the NHS. Why? She was told #SCFC women 'weren't covered'. Here's her story, told excl. to Guardian sport theguardian.com/football/artic…

‘Like much of Peace’s work, Munichs is an obsessional study in hauntology; not merely the idea that the past lives with us, but that multiple futures do, too.’ By Alex Clark theguardian.com/books/article/…

From end to end in six seconds, three touches and Oxford’s Mark Harris with the volleyed beauty

‘His parting messages brought the real Sven-Göran Eriksson back into focus, and returned the gold rush of which he was part to its proper proportion.’ By Paul Hayward theguardian.com/football/artic…

Somewhere around 10am on 21 June 2002

This is a fascinating and well-written piece of long-form work by Phil Hoad about Alexander Grothendieck, his life, family and metaphysical theories that could contain wonders theguardian.com/science/articl…

The story of Jonathan Wilson’s fortnight as Argentina assistant coach theguardian.com/football/artic…

Now it is

Absolutely spectacular scenes at Folkestone v Billericay

Christian Ambadiang with the try-saver from out of nowhere for Castres against Racing 92 and leading them straight back up the pitch (and later scoring a last-minute winning try)

Subbiano’s coach sent off for coming on to the pitch and fouling a Pontassieve player bearing down on goal in the Italian lower leagues

Good old county cricket

Ladies and gentlemen, the Championship

Lachlan Morton’s record-chasing quest to cycle 14,200km around Australia. ‘It’s an incredible way to get a real feel for the country,’ he tells Kieran Pender theguardian.com/sport/2024/sep…