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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Daniel Harris

The Joy of Six: stories of love in sport

From left: Derek Redmond at the 1992 Olympics; Kevin Sinfield holds Rob Burrow; and Matt Busby, former Manchester United manager
From left: Derek Redmond at the 1992 Olympics; Kevin Sinfield holds Rob Burrow; and Matt Busby, former Manchester United manager. Composite: Guardian Picture Desk

Jim Redmond

The older I get, the more profoundly I appreciate that, when I’m writing about sport, I’m also writing about love. This makes perfect sense given these are mankind’s two greatest inventions and the stuff we can least do without, but there’s more to it than that: sport and love are both expressions of identity, creativity and devotion, pursued because they are right but also because it’s impossible not to.

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