Pitch battle: the heyday of the football hooligan

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

hings were moving somewhat slowly in Nottingham, as 1974 dissolved into 1975. Not just outside, where pit smoke still spiked the air, but inside the Palais nightclub. A 1920s revolving dancefloor move

Rarely have two points been such cause for celebration. Come the end of the 2015-16 Premier League campaign, that was all that would separate Sam Allardyce’s Sunderland, in 17th, from relegated rivals

A summer of violence? Controversy of the week ...

Southport will fall silent for three minutes this week to remember the three girls who were tragically killed in the horrific attack that kicked off a wave of disorder across England and Wales last su

Henry Jeffreys on his eventful time as a council tenant