Triumphs and disasters

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Your mum Janice scored goals for England at the unofficial World Cup in Mexico in 1971, in front of huge crowds. When did you become aware of her football pedigree? I was maybe seven when she got out

Today’s staunch game-fisher has good reason to thank yesterday’s stolid coarse angler, writes Mike Handyside

You can take the man out of professional football, but you can’t take the professional footballer out of the man. The sweat is dripping off Ciaran Clark, after stepping off the Copper Box Arena pitch

No one has ever fallen for the Basque County quite like Archduchess Maria Christina. An exquisite pianist and polyglot, she left the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy to marry King Alfonso of Spain in 1879