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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

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The Catalan club were the standout side in Spanish football in 2024-25

Who cares if Flavio Briatore isn’t recognised as Alpine team principal? The important point is that he’s there. You may not approve of the wild-haired man who gabbles in unintelligible English, but th

O wen Hargreaves is one of English football’s most curious cases. The son of a Welsh mother and an English father, he was born in Canada before moving to Bayern Munich as a teenager. There, he broke i

When the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened in April 1986, I was nine years old. I’d just had a trial with Dynamo Kyiv, and it had gone well, but everything changed. In the first few days following t