Long Read Features

LONG READ It's been half a century since a small Midlands firm went from manufacturing nuns’ knickers to selling the world’s first replica football kits, just in time for Christmas

Nigeria were in crisis and little was expected of them at the 1996 Olympics - only for the Super Eagles to dig deep and achieve immortality

LONG READ With the Olympic games on home soil, Team GB excitedly put forward a men's football side - but Stuart Pearce's team were fighting fires off the pitch as much as on

LONG READ Justin Walley was an England home-and-away regular in his younger days, and recalls a crazy trip to Rotterdam in the Netherlands which was ruined by anarchy, arrests... and Ronald Koeman

ON THE GROUND We visited New York City to watch Major League Soccer's Hudson River Derby: New York City FC vs New York Red Bulls

Manchester City may now be a slick footballing juggernaut, but three decades ago they were slumming it in the third tier - and could have sunk even lower

LONG READ FFT went behind the scenes of the film that hung the beleaguered boss out to dry with his Taylorisms and ruined the career of his right-hand man

LONG READ In 1994, David Baddiel and Frank Skinner launched a television show which quickly outgrew its own name. Soon, they were hosting big name star guests and releasing record-breaking singles

Gareth Southgate once feared the Euro 96 penalty would overshadow everything – before he realised he could use it to his advantage

England’s world-class crop were tipped to bring home big honours during the 2000s, but fell short when it mattered most