Views from the Armchair began with a memory — a boy at Royal Birkdale in 1971, watching Lee Trevino win the Open Championship, and a Taiwanese golfer called Mr Lu charm an entire gallery into calling him Mr Lu.
That day has stayed. So have a thousand others: the try that wasn't, the race that turned on a yard, the moment when sport became something more than sport. This publication exists for those moments — and for the writers who remember them.
Views from the Armchair is an independent publication of long-form essays and considered opinion on sport. We are not a news site. We do not do match reports. We write about the stories sport leaves behind — the ones worth taking time over, and worth reading slowly.
The publication was founded with golf at its heart, but sport has never respected boundaries, and neither do we. Our contributors range across rugby union, cricket, football and beyond. If the writing is good and the memory is true, it belongs here.
We publish on a simple model: most of what we write is free. A small amount is reserved for subscribers, whose support allows us to pay contributors properly and keep the lights on.
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