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Charles Walford

The Spectator

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Can English Test cricket reinvent itself?

Bazball’s revels are now ended, and this week English cricket enters a brave new world after the retirement of captain Ben Stokes and defenestration...

18.08.2026 20

The Spectator

Charles Walford

The real reason for Fifa’s hydration breaks

More often than not controversy over liquid refreshment at a football World Cup focuses on the unsavoury antics of England’s travelling support....

27.06.2026 20

The Spectator

Charles Walford

Don’t kick Southampton out of the play-offs for spying

For a brief while, in the early 2010s, supporters of Middlesbrough FC borrowed from the Proclaimers to create a terrace song boasting that they would...

18.05.2026 30

The Spectator

Charles Walford

In defence of American sport

09.11.2025 30

The Spectator

Charles Walford