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XIBEST: Keiren Westwood, Rory Delap, Dean Walling, Jon Mellish, Danny Grainger, Rod Thomas, Callum Guy, Paul Conway, Francois Zoko, Michael Bridges, Jabo Ibehre. WORST: Shamal George, Christie Elliott

Many kids come from council estates, but not many came from a council estate in Camden Town, when Britpop was at its peak. It was the ’90s, Oasis were huge and Noel Gallagher would go to the boozer wi

Coventry City have been here before. In 1967, Jimmy Hill’s Sky Blues won the Second Division and were promoted to the top flight for the first time in their history. Lifelong innovator Hill took the u

You worked with the great Brian Clough at Sunderland, Derby and Nottingham Forest. How was your relationship with him? Initially, I was in his bad books. When I joined Sunderland as an apprentice, he

For the first time in 17 years, Tottenham actually won a trophy – a first European trophy since 1984, no less. That they did it in the same season as their lowest league finish for 47 years made it al

Our historian Keith looks back to an angling sponsorship wrangle from the late 1990s….