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Matthew Engel has had a journalistic career of unusual variety over more years than he cares to remember: he covered the first Gulf War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the death of Princess Diana and the September 11 attacks.
He has also reported more than 70 different sports, from the World Cup soccer finals to the European tiddlywinks championship. He has edited 12 of the 144 editions of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, “the cricketers’ bible”, but is equally enthusiastic about baseball.
His latest work, Extracts from the Red Notebooks, is published by Macmillan. This is intended to raise money for the Laurie Engel Fund, set up in conjunction with the Teenage Cancer Trust in memory of his son, who died in 2005 aged 13. - -
Dispatch from Drachten
An institute in the Dutch town claims that cars, pedestrians and cyclists can co-exist safely without traffic lights and with a minimum of rules, writes Matthew Engel
Dispatch from Barrow
Matthew Engel visits England’s most distinctive industrial town and explores how its submarine shipyard has dominated the lives of its residents
Outside Edge: The lost romance of the round
It seems rather enticing: the fresh morning air on the streets, the sense of freedom, the cheery greetings from the housewives in their nighties. The reality is somewhat different, writes Matthew Engel
Dispatch from Llangattock
Matthew Engel visits the Welsh countryside and discovers that there is nothing quite so inaccessible and impenetrably rural as a ploughing competition
The race to out-Osborne the real George
Maybe the post of chancellor of the exchequer has been declared too difficult for one man, and will now be a job-share for clones, writes Matthew Engel
Outside Edge: To woo a princess takes some Gaul
English males have long suspected that any Frenchman, no matter how old, ugly, dull or ridiculous, is capable of bowling over any Englishwoman. Could this novel prove it, writes Matthew Engel
Delight, not hysteria, in Ashes victory
As the shadows lengthened over The Oval on Sunday, England sealed their triumph in the latest re-enactment of the never-ending joust for sport’s most myth-encrusted trophy.
Man in the News: Freddie Flintoff
The people’s cricketer: spectators revel in the England all-rounder who is playing in his final Test
Appalling England need an Ashes miracle
If, or more likely now, when Australia retain the Ashes, this will have been the crucial day – in four hours of bizarre cricket, Australia took total command of the Leeds Test
England’s pig of a day gives Australia hope
An inflatable pink pig was spotted floating in front of the press box. By then, it was an appropriate motif for England’s chances of test match victory
