Football
Why the Premier League Still Rules the World
As the 2026/27 season begins, English football’s greatest export is still growing — and its strength lies in a formula its rivals have never quite been able to reproduce.
Majid Lavji8 min read
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Football
Liverpool’s £5.5 Billion Future: Inside the New Ownership of Anfield
There are ownership announcements in football that change the name above the door, and there are those that quietly change the balance of power behind it. Liverpool’s latest deal belongs firmly in the second category.
Majid Lavji9 min read
Motor Sport
Donington Park: The Circuit That Produced a Masterpiece
Every sport has moments that become larger than the event itself. Football has Geoff Hurst in 1966. Cricket has Botham's Ashes. Rugby has Jonny Wilkinson's drop goal. Formula One has Ayrton Senna's opening lap at Donington Park in 1993.
Sports Lounge Editorial6 min read
Motor Sport
Brands Hatch: Britain's Rollercoaster
There are racing circuits that demand precision. Others reward outright speed. Then there is Brands Hatch—a circuit that asks drivers for absolute commitment from the moment the lights go out until they cross the finish line.
Sports Lounge Editorial6 min read
Motor Sport
Aintree: Liverpool's Forgotten Formula One Legacy
Liverpool's Aintree is best known as the home of the Grand National, but for a remarkable period in the 1950s and early 1960s it also stood at the heart of Formula One. Built within the famous racecourse, the Aintree circuit hosted the British Grand Prix and welcomed many of the sport's greatest drivers, giving the city a lasting—yet often overlooked—place in Formula One history.
Sports Lounge Editorial7 min read
Motor Sport
Silverstone: The Birthplace of Formula One
There are few sporting venues anywhere in the world that can genuinely claim to have changed history. Wembley did it for football, Lord's for cricket, Wimbledon for tennis and Augusta National for golf. In motorsport, that honour belongs to Silverstone.
Sports Lounge Editorial6 min read
Motor Sport
Formula One: From Post-War Experiment to a Global Sporting Giant
There are sporting competitions that define generations, and then there is Formula One.
Sports Lounge Editorial7 min read
Football
Who Really Owns Football ?
From supporters on the terraces to sovereign wealth funds, has football quietly changed hands ?
Majid Lavji7 min read
Cricket
How the IPL Changed Cricket Forever: The League That Redefined a Global Sport
Few sporting competitions have transformed their game as dramatically as the Indian Premier League. In less than two decades, the IPL has grown from an ambitious domestic Twenty20 tournament into one of the most valuable and influential sporting properties in the world. Today it commands television audiences measured in hundreds of millions, attracts the finest cricketers from across the globe and generates revenues that rival many of the world's biggest sporting leagues.
Sports Lounge Editorial8 min read
Football
Is FIFA Selling the Soul of Football?
For more than a century, football has belonged to nobody and everybody at the same time. That simple idea has been at the heart of the world's game. Clubs belong to communities. National associations govern within their own borders. Continental bodies such as UEFA, CONMEBOL and the AFC organise competitions. Above them all sits FIFA – not as an owner, but as the game's custodian.
Majid Lavji5 min read
Football
The Greatest Team Never to Win the World Cup: Brazil 1982
Brazil travelled to Spain with a midfield of rare intelligence, a captain who looked like a philosopher and a belief that football should offer beauty as well as victory. They did not win the World Cup, but more than four decades later, their football remains loved in a way many champions can only envy.
Majid Lavji11 min read
Cricket
Don Bradman and the Shadow He Cast Over English Cricket
Don Bradman did more than score runs against England. For two decades, his presence changed the mood of Ashes cricket, forced English captains to rethink the game and created a standard of batting that has never been approached.
Sports Lounge Editorial10 min read