English football’s darkest months

Forty years ago, football hooliganism was at its peak, causing outrage, fear and fatalities. How did the sport recover from its darkest days, and what happened to the men who belonged to the “firms”? Rosa Silverman reports

Last week in Liverpool, on what was meant to be a historic day of sporting celebration at the Premier League victory parade, joy turned to tragedy. On Bank Holiday Monday, 26 May, the city was awash w

The front page of the Daily Mirror was emphatic. Less than two months after they had won an historic Treble, Manchester United were preparing to sit out the FA Cup to take part in the new FIFA Club Wo

You don’t need to be a football fan to find the sound of a crowd singing together profoundly moving. And you don’t need to be a Liverpool FC fan to find the Kop end singing You’ll Never Walk Alone a b

Riots sparked by the deaths of two young boys in Cardiff two years ago put the area of Ely into the national spotlight. But afterwards, something remarkable happened as a community worked out how to r

With the global sportscar scene buoyant right now and Le Mans upcoming, Matt James reflects back to a time when the World Sportscar Championship disappeared altogether against a highly political backdrop in 1991