‘i stopped at a building site and threw all my clubs in a skip’

The Australian-born Iraq international sits down with World Soccer to reflect on a football journey that has taken him from Sweden to Brighton to Kurdistan

I NEVER GOT THE CHANCES I THOUGHT I DESERVED

Once you’ve won an Olympic gold medal and earned your way through to the big league, why would you ever go back to race against the weekend warriors? If you win, well that’s because you’re a full-time

From being too nervous to hold his binoculars to calling some of the greatest races, this week Derek “Tommo” Thompson retired after 60 years as a commentator

QUEEN OF THE SOUTH 6DUNDEE 0 Scottish League Cup, 1977 “I was 20 and captain of Dundee for the second leg of a League Cup tie – we drew the first leg, then got hammered away. There’s a time in your li

The tears flowed as Oliver Solberg struggled to take in what he had just pulled off. The 23-year-old Swede, who is the son of 2003 World Rally Champion Petter Solberg, hadn’t driven a top-line Rally1