STEVENTON 6DIDCOT 0 Youth game, 1999 “I may have got some of the details of this game wrong, because I was 10 years old and it was 26 or 27 years ago, but this was the start of my love for football. I

What was your first game? It would’ve been a reserve game around 1973 or 1974. My first proper match was someone like Stoke or Ipswich – it wasn’t a big club like Manchester United or even Everton. On

You played 857 games for Liverpool between 1960 and 1978, making you the club’s record appearance holder. What does that title mean to you? It means a lot, being a local lad. It’s not just the appeara

Twenty-four years ago, Craig Bellamy’s defining moment as a Wales player came against Italy in Cardiff. This month, the same fixture could define his tenure as Wales manager. Bellamy won 78 caps for h

June 29, 1950. A player with a broad grin on his face is being carried shoulder-high by a group of excited local fans in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His name is Larry ‘Joe’ Gaetjens and his team, the Unit

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