There is a particular kind of sporting memory that never quite leaves you.

Not the statistics, not the league tables, not the transfer fees or the television contracts or the endless cycle of opinion that fills the hours between one match and the next. Something quieter than all of that. The moment a stadium held its breath. The afternoon a player did something that shouldn't have been possible. The evening you sat in a bar in a foreign city and discovered that sport, at its best, belongs to everyone in the room.

These are the memories that Views from the Armchair was built to celebrate.

We are not a news operation. We do not report results, chase stories or fill column inches before the dust has settled. We publish personal essays on great sporting occasions and considered comment on the game as it stands today — written by people who have been watching for a long time, who care deeply about what they have seen, and who believe that the most interesting thing about sport is not always what happened, but what it felt like to be there when it did.

The armchair is the signature. It represents a particular kind of witness — not the journalist on deadline, not the pundit with a take to deliver, but the spectator who was present, who has thought about it carefully, and who has something worth saying. Someone who remembers where they were standing. Someone for whom the memory has only deepened with time.

Sport has always produced this kind of writing at its finest — the essay that captures not just the event but the era, not just the result but the human beings at the centre of it. Views from the Armchair exists to publish that writing, and to find the voices capable of producing it.

All sports are welcome here. All eras. All grounds, stadiums, tracks and courses where something happened that is still worth talking about.

Pull up a chair. The best sporting memories deserve to be told properly.

Views from the Armchair publishes fortnightly essays and comment on sport, memory and the game as it stands today. New pieces are delivered directly to subscribers by email. Subscription is free.