I enjoyed Larry Elliott's imaginative game of Fantasy Economic Football, if only for the entertaining mental image it conjured up of all the economists I have ever known in shorts. Perhaps they could choose from the excellent range of Philosophy Football shirts? Larry's problem may be that he is looking for his world-class players in the wrong place. Although the intellectual Premier Lea...

Benedict Brogan’s favourite thing about Cameron? That he has no particular interest in football: New Labour did many things to our politics but one of the worst was to elevate football and its most tiresome aspects into a quasi religion....

Congratulations to the Racecourse, home of Wrexham Football Club, which has been officially recognised as the oldest football stadium in the world still hosting international games. The stadium has a 200-year history as a sporting venue, an acolade that will be recognised when a certificate from Guinness World records will be presented at the ground at the Wales v Romania under-21 game on Wednesda...

The latest game in the World Championship, a Slav with Anand playing White, ended in a draw after 36 moves. At one time Kramnik looked worse, but he held on easily enough. You can find the annotated game at Chessdom. The match score now stands at 5-2 to Anand. There will be 12 games in total.

Roman Quiz – Devised by Jaq and Angela  Prize – a PC Game Boris-Johnson.com has been offered  a chart-topping pc game Rome: Total War as a giveaway courtesy of www.pcgames.co.uk   Rome: Total War With the glory days of the real-time strategy game now nothing but a distant memory, Activision’s Total War series has come to totally dominate the

Prior to this World Cup, it's been years since I watched any live football and judging on last night's performance by England against Algeria it doesn't look like I've missed much. Although I'm always saying that I'm not much of a football fan I did used to play the game up to a reasonable level in my youth. I'm no master tactician or qualified coach, but I do un...

Mark Field is a member of the All-Party Group on Football and represented the Conservatives on its reports into the game’s governance (2003-04) and finances (2008-09). In the warm glow of England’s convincing qualification for next year’s World Cup Finals...

Wayne Rooney is pulling in the crowds at Old Trafford and in the virtual world.

At the first day of this year's Co-operative Party Conference, Andy Burnham kicked off a major debate about the future of football. A big fan of the game himself and founding chairman of Supporters Direct, Andy questioned whether the big money in football is having a positive effect and called for more fan ownership in football as well as rugby league and other sports. Football grew out of co...

Once upon a time, football was a man’s game. Now players are wearing scarves and gloves on the pitch. Whatever next?