By Paul Radford After three decades of reporting on an endless succession of scandals in international sport, I sometimes feel the need to ask myself two obvious questions. “Why do you still watch sport obsessively? And why, oh why, do you love it so much?” The...
By Paul Radford I have covered 17 Olympics and can assure you, they are much more than sport. Consider them international politics with sports thrown in. North Korea’s sudden enthusiasm for taking part in next month’s Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang on the southern...
By Paul Radford One minute, one hour, one day. Small units of time that make the difference between life and death when random acts of terror take place. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is what we dread. Being lucky is all we can hope for. One Hour The...
By Paul Radford For a number of years in the 1990s, I covered the activities of FIFA for Reuters and interviewed the then general secretary Sepp Blatter on a number of occasions. From a journalist’s point of view, he was an excellent interviewee, always affable and...
I can vividly remember the day, more than a quarter of a century ago now, when I felt my job as sports reporter had transformed into fiction writer. U.S. agents carry boxes of evidence from the headquarters of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean...