Exploring the weird and wonderful world of football across FIFA’s 211 member nations –and beyond

Joe Whyte tells the remarkable story of Scotland’s Junior Sea Angling Team and young Franky Hamilton, who in the space of under a year has gone from a novice junior angler he was mentoring to representing his country and winning the Home Internationals – the first gold medal for the team in 22 years

P ROFESSIONAL RUGBY is about finding ways to ...

The former Peru and Newcastle United winger discusses the difficulties of managing the Pakistan national team, and how he and the Pakistan Football Federation hope to help football progress in the South Asian nation

From landing hulking catfish on the Zambezi to talking tackle with Ted Hughes, COUNTRY LIFE’s fishing correspondent looks back on seven colourful decades

Give these superstars the ball and they will do something special to win you a game…