It's 20 years since the publication of ' The Grass Arena', the autobiography of John Healy, an alcoholic vagrant who found redemption in prison through chess. Now out in a new edition, it is being ...

With the summer convert season upon us, Bayern Munich has stripped down the beloved grass down to a bald state at the Allianz Arena to make way for some protective flooring so that the stadium can ...

Anyone familiar with Healy’s memoir, The Grass Arena, will know that he has been to hell and back (and then some). The eldest child of Irish immigrants in London, he joined the British army in his ...