The night football reached fever pitch

Twenty years ago tonight, Arsenal and Liverpool staged the most remarkable climax in history to an English football season. “A night of chilling simplicity” as commentator Brian Moore called it. Tony Leen was there.

Starter’s orders in coaching sack race

SOME jobs are by their nature hazardous. Coal miners and trawler men were always the two groups most at risk, although times have changed (in Europe anyway) mainly because there are hardly any mines left and much fewer fish.

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