From Dallaglio’s medals to Cantona’s shorts, sporting memorabilia is big business | Emma John
By Emma John
Like transfer fees and ticket prices, mementoes are one more marker of sport’s rampant self-inflation
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‘Like swapping a Bentley for a Ferrari’: can the Harry Potter stage show survive being chopped in half?
By Emma JohnAfter a phenomenal decade-long run, the Cursed Child two-parter is being pruned. Will it still work? Our writer swishes her cloak, levitates her luggage – and hops aboard the streamlined Hogwarts Express
#HarryPotterandtheCursedChild #Theatre #WestEnd #SoniaFriedman #Stage #Culture #HarryPotter #JKRowling #JackThorne #JohnTiffany #TheGuardian #EmmaJohn
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Why boxing is still a box office smash hit even as the sport’s popularity wanes | Emma John
By Emma JohnFighters have always provided rich material for stories on stage and screen and the appeal to audiences has not wavered
#Boxing #Sport #Sportfilms #Film #Culture #TheGuardian #EmmaJohn
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Hay Fever review – Richard E Grant and Christine Baranski host Coward’s country house shenanigans
By Emma JohnWyndham’s theatre, London Grant brings shock-haired vigour as a vain novelist forced to welcome his boho children’s surprise guests in comedy of clipped social embarrassment
#Theatre #NoelCoward #Stage #WestEnd #RichardEGrant #Culture #Comedy #Comedy #TheGuardian #EmmaJohn
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Sydney Sweeney’s cartoonish provocation has sparked a culture war but let’s just admit sport can be sexy | Emma John
By Emma JohnYes sport is about effort, sweat and inclusivity – but it also turns elite athletes into magnificent specimens of humanity where the aesthetic is part of the appeal
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/sep/18/sydney-sweeney-provocation-culture-war-sport-sexy
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Bloodsport: After Helen of Troy review – classical myth burns into modern England
By Emma JohnTheatre Royal Stratford East, London In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable
#Theatre #Stage #Culture #MichelleDockery #TheatreRoyalStratfordEast #Classics #Folkloreandmythology #Books #TheGuardian #EmmaJohn
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‘We all have an expiry date’: Kimberly Akimbo, the achingly funny musical about a teen with a 64-year-old body
By Emma JohnThe uplifting, award-winning show about a girl aging four times too fast electrified New York. As it hits the UK, co-creator Jeanine Tesori talks about being inspired by the Aids crisis and all her friends who died young
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/08/jeanine-tesori-kimberly-akimbo-interview-musical
#Musicals #Stage #Culture #Theatre #Broadway #WestEnd #Hampsteadtheatre #Ageing #TheGuardian #EmmaJohn
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Test cricket ponders end times again, but this decline feels both real and symbolic | Emma John
By Emma JohnSeries and matches are getting shorter as the sport’s pace of change quickens – as if cricket is a proxy for wider fears
#Cricket #Pakistancricketteam #Sport #Englandcricketteam #TheGuardian #EmmaJohn
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Pull. Breathe. Kick. Glide … the cautionary tale of the first cross-Channel swimmer | Emma John
By Emma JohnIn this content-driven age, we consume sport as fleeting entertainment – but the fate of Captain Matthew Webb suggests we always have
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Why Super Furry Animals joined music’s dash to cross over football’s vinyl frontier | Emma John
By Emma JohnThe sponsorship deal between Cwmbran Celtic and the Welsh indie-rockers is part of a trend to monetise ‘adjacent audiences’ as much as it is a nostalgia trip
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/08/super-furry-animals-mogwai-football-cwmbran-celtic
#Football #Sport #Music #Culture #Mogwai #SuperFurryAnimals #TheGuardian #EmmaJohn
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After half a decade of the Hundred, we still don’t know what this thing actually is | Emma John
By Emma JohnThe Hundred has always been an experiment in manufactured identity – you can’t hurry history, but perhaps you can fake it
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About to embark upon my 36th book of the year (I had hoped to average at nine each month, so I’m not too far behind, and February owes me a few days…) and we’re back to one of my favourite subjects #Cricket #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #CurrentlyReading #Bookworm #BookLovers #Bibliophile #FollowingOn #EmmaJohn
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It could just be that a global catastrophe matters more than a pause in sport https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/24/global-catastrophe-matters-more-than-pause-in-sport-just-stop-oil-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other