Euro 96 Revisited – Day 4

Russia’s Andrei Kanchelskis and Italy’s Paolo Maldini tussle for the ball Every one of the sixteen participants have now played in in this year’s European Championships after the two matches today.This is the tenth European Championship and is the first to have sixteen teams taking part in it and two of the sides that played […]

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Football’s Greatest Goals No.14

It seems fitting that number 14 in this series should be from Thierry Henry.The Frenchman wore this squad number during his first spell at Arsenal, where he became the club’s record goalscorer. Henry joined Arsenal in 1999 and was originally a winger; but manager Arsene Wenger saw something in him that made him think he […]

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On This Day – 14th May

Wimbledon won the FA Cup for the first and only time in their history on this day back in 1988.The Dons beat Liverpool, who were red-hot favourites to win the Cup, thanks to a first-half goal from Lawrie Sanchez. Wimbledon had only been in the First Division for two years and had finished the season […]

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