Sam PortilloWorld Cup hot list: glory huntersFive months before Senegal play the Netherlands in the opening game, let’s assess each team’s chances of success in the winter sun.Jun 14, 2022Jun 14, 2022
Sam PortilloHala Madrid? How Real Madrid became Europe’s favourite underdogsThis Madrid side is unmistakably human, and that would make them heroic winners of this season’s Champions League.May 26, 20221May 26, 20221
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: Dawn FMI‘m not a morning person. The morning routine that makes me happiest, in fact, is to snooze until I am bored. No false alarms. Nothing to…Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: Hard WorkTwo rich and famous twenty-somethings, locked in conversation for the world to see. What could possibly go wrong?Jan 6, 2022Jan 6, 2022
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: The Year AheadOnce upon a time, I wrote a predictions piece. Twenty things that I thought, or the Internet told me, would happen in 2020. Depending on…Dec 31, 2021Dec 31, 2021
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: Festive FootballTo play or not to play? That is the question.Dec 21, 2021Dec 21, 2021
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: Deluded DenialistsThe pandemic has changed our lives in unpleasant and unwelcome ways — that, we can all agree. In the face of a new, highly infectious and…Dec 18, 2021Dec 18, 2021
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: Ending the PandemicRemember when the scientists identified a new type of coronavirus and sugarcoated its discovery by calling it novel? Well, scientists –…Dec 17, 2021Dec 17, 2021
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: ProcrastinationThe word procrastination: from the Latin procrastinatus, which roughly translates into modern English as the ‘forwarding of tomorrow’.Dec 13, 20211Dec 13, 20211
Sam PortilloOn My Mind: The Christmas PartyIt’s been exactly two years since the Conservative Party won a merry majority in the 2019 general election. Only now, the snowy veil under…Dec 12, 20211Dec 12, 20211
