🙌 @paulhayward.bsky.social on sport's communal joy
🇬🇭🇳🇬 @morgankofori.bsky.social on the Afro Classico
🦊 @benbloomsport.bsky.social on Leicestershire's revival
🏉 @bencoles.bsky.social on the rise of Run It Straight

All online and in print today:
observer.co.uk/collections/...

⚈ @zaltzcricket.bsky.social on Virat Kohli's Test legacy
⚈ @lydiahislop.bsky.social on Rachael Blackmore
⚈ Ben Coles on the Lions's Finn v Fin dilemma
⚈ @morgankofori.bsky.social edits Fanfare & Fanguish

Plus more... get your copy, or visit observer.co.uk/collections/...

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🏉 @jesshayden.bsky.social on 'pest' Henry Pollock...
Fanfare & Fanguish, edited by @morgankofori.bsky.social
🔴@xaviergreenwood.bsky.social on 20 years of the Glazers
🏏 @benbloomsport.bsky.social on IPL being plunged into darkness

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What a use of the word boondoggle, by the way

AND finally – a special Sunday LUNCHTIME edition Marathon picture special to go to runners/supporters in London this afternoon. Some shift.

And in the Marathon Supplement, writing from Ben Bloom, Jessy Parker Humphreys, Paul Hayward, Alastair Hignell, Sam Dalling, a Where's Wally-esque map, graphics from Katie Riley & Bex Sander.

Hope you enjoy, and do let me know what you think. Won't get everything right, etc.

Continued...
🚴‍♂️ Jeremy Whittle on Tadej Pogacar
🏎️ Matt Majendie on Lando Norris's headache

PLUS: Funfare & Fanguish from Morgan Ofori – a fan-led feature (that I'd love to hear from people on), and Puzzles...(!)

🔴 Rory Smith on Liverpool's *almost* title party
🏉 Jess Hayden on Women's 6 Nations marginal triumph
🏏 Jessy Parker Humphreys interviews Ebony Rainford-Brent
🔵 Paul Hayward on Man City's season salvage job
🏏 Dean Wilson on Surrey's hyperbaric chamber
🏏 Andy Zaltzman on Bazball