Manchester city and the ones that got away

If the Premier League’s foundation provided the gunpowder for English football’s foreign revolution, the summer of 1995 was when the keg exploded. The year in which I Believe by Robson & Jerome unfath

November 1989: inside a Manchester warehouse, guitarist John Squire is busy pouring cans of paint over himself and the rest of his band, The Stone Roses. Suddenly, he stops. “We’ve been stitched up he

Some statements are just destined to make their speaker look foolish from the moment they leave their lips. On September 4, 1976, it was the turn of Lindsay Parsons to find that out. Bristol Rovers’ s

BEST: Darryl Flahavan, Simon Francis, Alan Moody, Adam Barrett, Chris Powell, Mark Gower, Kevin Maher, Ryan Leonard, Roy Hollis, Freddy Eastwood, Stan Collymore. WORST: Nathan Bishop, Elvis Bwomono, J

What was the first game you ever attended? Chelsea against Blackpool in 1971 when I was five. I went with my friend Phil and his older brother, who was about 15 or 16 and was looking after us for the

Everywhere Christian Vieri went, he scored goals. Only two players have ever won both Serie A’s Capocannoniere award and La Liga’s Pichichi Trophy, as top scorer: Vieri, then Cristiano Ronaldo. Born i