Matt Dickinson

Manchester United’s co-owner knows the most challenging long-term appointment will be man on the touchline – because ‘commercial growth will follow if the football team are successful’

Watching Britain’s most decorated male tennis star in recent times has been painful, but as he rages against the dying of the light I find myself cheering every battle

The full back discusses his Tottenham Hotspur exit, facing Lionel Messi, and why he rates Thomas Frank as highly as Zinédine Zidane, José Mourinho and Diego Simeone

QPR’s tribute at Loftus Road was a sad goodbye not only to ‘Stan the Man’ but also to an era when players thrived despite trips to the pub and screeching up at the ground just before kick-off

Gary Neville will also sit on group looking at possibility of revamping Old Trafford or building a new 80,000-seater arena under new investor Sir Jim Ratcliffe

The organiser of the extreme Barkley Marathons said a woman would never win it. Jasmin Paris proved him wrong, fitting in training alongside being a vet, lecturer and mother — all while wearing holey trainers in a stand against consumerism

Revelation that Sven-Goran Eriksson almost succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson sent me down other paths that might have been, on a journey full of insight and poignancy

In part two of The Times refereeing summit Conor Coady, Peter Walton, Richard Scudamore and Jacqui Oatley search for sensible solutions to hysterical dissent

Warnings on Match of the Day, speed awareness style courses, managers ordered to referee on Sunday mornings, how can we stop the sickening culture of abusing officials?

Premier League and PGMOL believe technology needs to be improved rather than scrapped and are planning a series of adjustments before a vote next month by clubs on whether to keep video technology