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Nothing perks up a magazine like a columnist with plenty to say and no reticence in saying it. In the equestrian world, has there ever been anybody better at that than Harvey Smith? In October 1987, ‘Horse & Hound’ signed up Harvey to pen a regular column in its...

We recently remarked on Four FourTwo’s love of a good list here, and in the September 2004 edition, they were at it again. This time, they were looking at ‘101 Ways To Improve Football’, a pretty exhaustive list that took to task many of the ills that they reckoned...

The 1970 Monaco Grand Prix was one of the many classics that have been run in the tiny principality over the years. After all, what more can you ask than that the race is decided on the final corner of the final lap? As was ever the case in the 1970s, the Monaco...

We’re heading into the most glamorous week of the Formula 1 season as the Grand Prix circus descends on Monaco for the race that still captures the attention of the world, petrolheads or not. Back in the 1960s, Graham Hill was not simply the only man to win the triple...

Any writer or pundit will tell you, ruefully, that making predictions in print is a mug’s game, but sometimes, those predictions do come off. Rugby World had a particularly good month of it in March 2008 when, in the Sidelines column, Mark Coughlan chose to spotlight...

Magazine editors love a good listicle – that’s an article based around a list to the rest of us – and if you’re trying to get a new title off the ground, said lists are a great way of stirring up controversy and getting yourself a nice chunk of publicity. So it was...

We are in an Olympic year of course and equestrians all over the world will be looking towards Paris in a couple of months. The last Olympics, in Tokyo, was delayed a year because of the Covid pandemic of course, but back in 1956 there were different difficulties to...

All eyes are on Imola at the weekend for the latest round in the Formula 1 World Championship, but the Autodromo Dino Ferrari has been a regular fixture on the F1 scene for nearly half a century now. It first staged the Italian Grand Prix in 1980 when Monza was out of...

Golf Monthly isn’t simply a journal of the events that happen to the great and the good of the professional game. Over the years, it has also built into perhaps the finest golfing education that any enthusiastic amateur can buy, from reviews of the latest equipment to...

The Badminton Horse Trials remain one of the biggest highlights of the equestrian year, and the one that each rider wants to win. Back in 2007, Horse & Hounds produced an 18 page special on Badminton, following the dominant victory of Lucinda Fredericks and her...

The end of the regular football season is approaching, but don’t despair, the summer will be full of the European Championships. Gareth Southgate will be talking England to his fourth major championships, having taken on the job following the departure of Roy Hodgson...

There was much rejoicing in Miami at the start of the month when Lando Norris finally won his first F1 Grand Prix at the 110th attempt, seeing off the challenge of Max Verstappen in is McLaren. The rivalry between the two of the goes back a decade and more, both...

If you had been picking up a copy of ‘Rugby World’ some 50 years ago this month, you would have been able to immerse yourself in the minutiae of the forthcoming British Lions tour to South Africa, little knowing that “the Invincibles” were about to embark on perhaps...

The great and the good of world golf will be gathering at Valhalla this coming week. No, they haven’t all suddenly been slain only to live again in Norse mythology. Instead, they’re descending upon the Louisville golf course, designed by the great Jack Nicklaus, to...

On April 27 1975, Formula 1 history was made when Lella Lombardi, driving a March 751, became the first, and still the only, woman to score points in a world championship race when she came in sixth at the Spanish Grand Prix. Her remarkable achievement was, however,...

Today’s news that design genius Adrian Newey is to leave the Red Bull team has shocked the world of F1 to its core, perhaps even more than Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari did a few months ago. It brings to an end a 19-year association with Red Bull, during which time...

We were saddened to hear the news of John O’Shea’s passing earlier today. Five times a Welsh international in the late 1960s, he won selection for the 1968 British Lions tour to South Africa. He played in the first Test against the Springboks as the Lions were...

Northampton Saints are enjoying a magnificent season, currently sitting five points clear at the head of the Gallagher Premiership table after 15 of their 18 fixtures, and all set to take their place in the end of season play-offs. There’s also the little matter of...

Formula 1 returns to China for the fifth round of this year’s World Championship, ending the Shanghai International Circuit’s post-Covid exile. It remains a relative newcomer to the F1 world, the first race staged there in late September 2004. Coming into it, Michael...

We are in the final weeks of Jürgen Klopp’s reign at Liverpool and doubtless there will be an emotional farewell to the manager who finally brought the Premier League title to Anfield in 2020, as well as another Champions League trophy, the FIFA World Club Cup, the...