James Lawton
James Lawton: Managers have been stripped of their worth in a billionaires' lottery
Before the euphoria created by the desert eagle that landed in English
football laden with gold runs completely off the graph, maybe we should take
another look at some of the implications.
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James Lawton: Why ask too many questions if at last the playing field is level?
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
It was not so easy to believe yesterday but it is true and it happened when
Manchester City didn't need the money of a philanthropist from Thailand
pursued by a pack of human rights organisations or a Middle East property
developer bearing the potential gift of Dimitar Berbatov.
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James Lawton: Bitterness over Faldo wild cards exposes the hidden cracks in European union
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Tiger Woods has never hidden his contempt for the concept of team golf.
Shortly after winning a routine million dollars or so on his own behalf six
years ago, he was challenged over his lack of enthusiasm when he arrived at
The Belfry, which of course was gripped by the usual Ryder Cup fever.
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James Lawton: Wenger's revolution lays down test of loyalty for Arsenal fans
Saturday, 30 August 2008
Football has rarely set such a fascinating test as the one now unfolding at the Emirates Stadium. It is about nerve and understanding of the dynamics of a football club and the possibility that there is a way of going forward that breaks new ground and, one day, might deliver an ultimately satisfying moment of success.
James Lawton: Wenger puts his finger on the 'wretched truth' behind Olympic success
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger is not xenophobic -- he has proved that in his long years irrigating English football with the finest skill -- but he was maybe the most damning witness of all amid the fanfare which greeted Great Britain's medal haul in Beijing.
James Lawton: Politicians may bask in Beijing's golden glow but they're still failing our children
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Behind every British triumph in Beijing, and every eloquent statement by heroes like swimmer Rebecca Adlington and sculler Mark Hunter about how it felt to beat the world, there was a scandal.
James Lawton: The greatest Games ever
Monday, 25 August 2008
Something forlorn and regrettable happened here last night. The greatest Olympics we have ever seen -- and perhaps ever will -- came to an end.
James Lawton: Greatest stories at the Games are etched in gold of Chinese characters
Friday, 22 August 2008
British glory has been so relentless in these 29th Olympics, and that of Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps so spectacular, it has been easy to forget that the most remarkable story of all has been written in Chinese characters.
James Lawton: Time stands still as Lightning Bolt strikes for a second time
Thursday, 21 August 2008
You could say, once again, that it was a night when the world stood still – all of it, that is, except for Usain Bolt.
James Lawton: Price packs the punch to walk in step with legends
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Just one more fight, one more win and David Price is in a place he can still hardly dream about.
James Lawton: When Britain fell in love with the Olympics
Monday, 18 August 2008
It was the weekend when Britain did more than count medals made of gold and silver and bronze and weigh the courage and the dedication of so many of its sportsmen and women unused to the kind of attention routinely paid to millionaire footballers.
James Lawton: Lightning Bolt seizes the world in ultimate one-man fast show
Monday, 18 August 2008
Michael Phelps was being enshrined as the greatest Olympian of all time around about the time Usain Bolt surfaced yesterday to face a world he had not so much thrilled as mesmerised.
James Lawton: The Olympic gamble worth its weight in gold
Saturday, 16 August 2008
From the early hours of this morning Britain has good reasons to expect its greatest weekend of sport; a surge of world-beating prowess on land and water that could net its athletes up to nine gold medals.
James Lawton: The world awaits a new athletic legend
Saturday, 16 August 2008
When the three fastest men in the world came into the Birds Nest stadium yesterday the morning sunshine was brighter than at any other time in these 29th Olympics.
James Lawton: Olympic judges send boxing plunging through the canvas
Friday, 15 August 2008
The hot theory here in the Workers' Gymnasium is that you might just be able to stand in the middle of the ring, while dressed in the full ceremonial robes of the Dalai Lama, deliver a speech on the need for Tibetan liberty and then walk unscathed into the street. Who, after all, is going to notice? Not, probably, an Olympic boxing judge.
James Lawton: On the beach, it was Georgia who beat Russia (with just a little help from Brazil)
Thursday, 14 August 2008
Around the time the news was drawing at least a small frown in the Kremlin, you couldn't help wishing there were a few more mercenaries like Cristine Santanna and Andrezza Martins das Chagas.
James Lawton: Phelps powers towards first place in Olympic pantheon
Wednesday, 13 August 2008
When Muhammad Ali was at the peak of his powers a sparring partner dreamt he had beaten him and then woke up and rushed to apologise.
James Lawton: Daley's failure the legacy of perennial lack of perspective
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
On a day of unexpected glory, when an unheralded swimmer called Rebecca Adlington seized gold with the performance of her life, the celebrations were muted by the landing of the other side of a battered and all too familiar coin. It bore the elfin face of Tom Daley, the most lauded 14-year-old in the history of British sport.
James Lawton: Little hero Tom is still just a boy
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
On a day of unexpected glory, when an unheralded swimmer called Rebecca Adlington seized gold with the performance of her life, the celebrations were muted by the landing of the other side of a battered and a too familiar coin. It bore the elfin face of Tom Daley, the most lauded 14-year-old in the history of British sport.
James Lawton: Star of LeBron burns brightest to dazzle Chinese pretenders
Monday, 11 August 2008
It was supposed to be the keynote launch of the great battle for Olympic supremacy between China and the old masters America, a kind of intergalactic collision squeezed on to a basketball court.
Are the Olympic Games worth it?
Thursday, 7 August 2008
The expectation of amazing feats trains the eyes of the world on Beijing, despite the Olympics' frequent betrayal of their founding principles, says James Lawton.
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