Take me somewhere nice

England's cussed, underrated win in Sri Lanka in 2000-01 was a career highlight for a maligned generation

Let me be your fantasy

In five seasons as Kent’s overseas player, Carl Hooper produced high art in industrial quantities. Shame he couldn't do it more often

5. The perch

So who did knock Liverpool off it?

4. Two fingers

Arsenal won the title at a canter in 1990-91 even though - or more likely because - they were deducted two points after a Royal Rumble in Manchester

The whiff of danger

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

Football, bloody hell

Manchester United 2-1 Bayern Munich, 26 May 1999

The worst of times, the best of Best

A goal so good it turned Barry Davies into Bernard Matthews

Hot hot heat

A year before he laid waste to South Africa at the Oval, Devon Malcolm bowled an even faster spell to beat Australia

The Sydney files

Since 1975, England have picked 13 Test debutants for the last match of an Ashes series. Name them or GTFO.

The longest day

Dead-rubber wins can taste just as sweet as the real thing - sometimes even sweeter

Let's push things forward

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

Name the 24 players England used in the 1993 Ashes

And you wonder why Australia won 4-1