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Jimmy Carter’s energy policy, stadium rock, the death of Mao, fall of the Shah, The Sweeney and Roy of the Rovers feature as hot topics among Ian Plenderleith’s recommended reads
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Review The Game of Our Lives: The Meaning and Making of English Football by David Goldblatt – review
An enlightening survey of the game in the post-Thatcher era, as it fell prey to nefarious owners and inept administrators, writes David Kynaston -
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Graham Sharpe: After a quarter of a century judging the prize, we sometimes feel we’ve read it all – but with Gareth Thomas’s Proud among the pack this year, the quality of the work continues to surprise us
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The first floodlit matches at the Arsenal, kids turning a lamppost into a wicket, and a pioneering mechanical hare called Rupert ... here are the best photos of the city’s built – and improvised – sporting venues through history
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Were two men ever more cruelly wronged? Not according to these self-pitying memoirs from Roy Keane and Kevin Pietersen, writes Tim Adams
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