Simon Craig

The international match on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, from The Australasian Sketcher of 17 January 1883. National Library of Australia. Public Domain.

Victorian Cricket and Corruption

Bribery scandals in cricket are nothing new. England’s 1882 tour of Australia soon brought the most respectable of sports into disrepute.

Riding High

Simon Craig discovers that drug abuse in professional sport goes back more than a hundred years.

Fever Pitch, 1909

Simon Craig discusses the long-term feud between the Scottish football teams Celtic and Rangers and a rare episode ninety years ago, when fans from both sides united against the authorities.