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For the past three years, England women have been reaping the fruits of professionalism. Gone are the days of combining jobs as firefighters, vets and plumbers with gruelling training schedules. The results? The Red Roses are on an unstoppable 18-match winning streak and are favourites to win a third consecutive Six Nations Grand Slam . While the rest of the women’s game ponders the move towards professionalism, England have ploughed ahead, leaving other nations trailing in their wake. Head coach Simon Middleton’s side have not lost a match since the summer of 2019. With the Women’s Six Nations now upon us – and more than three years since England’s players dropped their second careers to become full-time athletes – Telegraph Sport delved into the former lives of four key players to explore how their livelihoods before professional rugby intrinsically link to their skill set on the pitch. Marlie Packer, back row As someone who used to juggle plumbing alongside rugby, … [Read more...] about England’s Women’s Six Nations defence built on prisons, plumbing and painting – and how that translates to the pitch

I would like to take you back to a certain time in the young life of our republic—a time that was filled with a deep sense of foreboding, a grim expectation that our national life was about to change radically, and a giddy appreciation nonetheless of the possibilities held out by the rapid advance of human knowledge. It was a time that has perhaps more than a little in common with the times we inhabit now. The year was 1857. Railroads did not yet cross the North American continent, but everyone knew that one day soon they would. The publication of Darwin's Origin of Species was two years away, but loud rumblings in the halls of science had already warned the keepers of religious faith that serious challenges lay ahead. The largest wave of immigration in the nation's history was pouring through the cities of the eastern seaboard. Though he would become President in four years, Abraham Lincoln in 1857 was no more widely known nationally than any former one-term Congressman is today. … [Read more...] about The Atlantic: A History

Amir Khan hangs up his gloves safe in the knowledge he is one of the best boxers the UK has produced, bringing excitement and drama to the global stage and inspiring countless British Asians along the way. Khan won Olympic silver as a teenager, was world champion at 22 and unified the light-welterweight division before his 25th birthday as his lightning reflexes and blurring hand speed overwhelmed many formidable opponents. He might have achieved more – it seems peculiar his talents did not transcend to winning world titles in more than one division – but a suspect chin and a waning enthusiasm meant he spent the last decade of his career in purgatory. Yet the legacy he leaves is more than the belts won or the millions banked, having been one of the few fighters from these isles to truly ‘crack’ the United States. At his zenith he split opinion like few others but he juggled boxing with several philanthropic endeavours and did not shirk speaking about difficult … [Read more...] about A closer look at Amir Khan as one of Britain’s most entertaining boxers retires