Otto’s revenge

If the Premier League’s foundation provided the gunpowder for English football’s foreign revolution, the summer of 1995 was when the keg exploded. The year in which I Believe by Robson & Jerome unfath

How about a little pub quiz question to kick us off? Which club was the first to have a betting shirt sponsor in the Premier League? Bonus point if you can guess the season. The answer is Fulham, who

Some statements are just destined to make their speaker look foolish from the moment they leave their lips. On September 4, 1976, it was the turn of Lindsay Parsons to find that out. Bristol Rovers’ s

Born and raised in Melbourne, you joined Celtic’s academy as a teenager. How did that move happen? A youth scout in Australia spotted me and arranged a trial that, to my surprise, ended in an offer fo

November 1989: inside a Manchester warehouse, guitarist John Squire is busy pouring cans of paint over himself and the rest of his band, The Stone Roses. Suddenly, he stops. “We’ve been stitched up he

A round-up from around the grounds on who tasted success through the English rugby pyramid