Being a sports writer has its privileges. It allows, among other things, the chance to live out some of football’s biggest nights from the inside, infiltrated, sometimes like a spy – the Champions Lea

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A new European era begins

As the 12th stage of the 1958 Vuelta a España – 169km over three classified climbs to Bilbao – drew to a close, there was much for journalists to draw on for their post-race reports. Firstly the race

Advantage Elfyn Evans: the Welshman is back at the head of the World Rally Championship with just two rounds to go, following a dramatic hard-surface Central European Rally in October. Evans has a 13-

Ethan Nwaneri, Arsenal’s youngest-ever player, is flying the flag for the club’s Hale End academy. But isheready to deliver in the Premier League?