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Liverpool run away with the title after a far from vintage Premier League season

The front page of the Daily Mirror was emphatic. Less than two months after they had won an historic Treble, Manchester United were preparing to sit out the FA Cup to take part in the new FIFA Club Wo

Last week in Liverpool, on what was meant to be a historic day of sporting celebration at the Premier League victory parade, joy turned to tragedy. On Bank Holiday Monday, 26 May, the city was awash w

Margaret Thatcher’s administration had spent 1984 battling the miners and dismantling the coal industry. But with that fight almost won, as the clock ticked into the New Year, she had another of the U

Forty years ago, football hooliganism was at its peak, causing outrage, fear and fatalities. How did the sport recover from its darkest days, and what happened to the men who belonged to the “firms”? Rosa Silverman reports

The derby of the century