Roll back 70 years to a grey, austere postwar Britain, still in ruins, still enduring food rationing, queues and misery, a nation where football provided a scarce escape. It was also when, for the first time, England took part in the game’s major global tournament,...
The FA Cup final will be held on 1 August with the quarter-finals givenprovisional restart dates of 27 and 28 June, the Football Association has announced. The date of resumption is 10 days after the Premier League is set to kick off again. The competition had reached...
“You win something once and people say it is all down to luck,” reflected Brian Clough after Nottingham Forest had successfully defended the European Cup on 28 May 1980. “You win it twice and it shuts the buggers up.” Winning the 1979 European Cup was hardly a fluke....
This year’s Shergar Cup, the competition involving jockeys representing regions of the world along with an international women’s team, has had to be cancelled. The Ascot event, scheduled for its usual early-August slot, was perhaps the race day most vulnerable to the...
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Back in the early days of the Covid-19 lockdown there was a tendency to talk, hopefully, about the many opportunities for self-improvement confinement would provide. One suggestion was that people...
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