The Sydney files
Since 1975, England have picked 13 Test debutants for the last match of an Ashes series. Name them or GTFO.
Since 1975, England have picked 13 Test debutants for the last match of an Ashes series. Name them or GTFO.
Football
Before his injuries, the original Ronaldo was the most exciting young player we've ever seen
The Ashes
Dead-rubber wins can taste just as sweet as the real thing - sometimes even sweeter
2001-02
In December 2001, ten-man Arsenal ignored xenophobia, injustice and Europe’s deadliest snake to win at Anfield. It was the symbolic start of the Invincible era
I'll See You Out There
In the summer of 1996, Alex Ferguson was in desperate need of a worthy adversary. Nobody realised the answer would come from Japan.
Cricket
In five seasons as Kent’s overseas player, Carl Hooper produced high art in industrial quantities. Shame he couldn't do it more often
The Real Quiz
And you wonder why Australia won 4-1
Before his injuries, the original Ronaldo was the most exciting young player we've ever seen
Gunter Netzer x Frank Beckenbauer x Gerd Muller = Germany's greatest team
And you wonder why Australia won 4-0
England went to the Caribbean in 1986 fancying their chances of an historic victory. A terrifying festival of chin music in Jamaica disabused them of the notion
History is a wheel
In 1993-94, Manchester United stole Arsenal’s title as the most hated team in England
Name the nominees, bathe in pride
The Arsenal-Man Utd rivalry intensified during a ferocious FA Cup tie in 1988
Ten of Joe Root's best innings
During their 1992-93 tour of Australia, West Indies were on the brink of losing their long unbeaten run. Curtly Ambrose wasn't having that
Arsenal’s young team were top of the league and full of the joys when they arrived at Old Trafford in 1987. One man soon changed that
The 28th man goes too far
Shane Warne started his first Ashes tour as a relative unknown. By the end, England’s batsmen knew quite enough about him
The last great goal at the old Wembley was a Batigolazo that shattered Arsenal
Edgbaston 2008, and the innings Graeme Smith was born to play
Clive Allen’s swish through the West Ham defence in 1984 was the kind of instinctive brilliance that belonged on the Copacabana, not a muddy Upton Park
Gunter Netzer x Frank Beckenbauer x Gerd Muller = Germany's greatest team