Football history

How a football victory in 1996 helped South Africa heal the wounds of apartheid

In 1978, West Bromwich Albion became British ambassadors in China.

Jan Tian says his devotion to coding the first EA Sports Fifa game nearly broke him

The lost memoir of former Manchester United keeper, Les Sealey

In 2000, Swede Sven-Goran Eriksson became manager of England’s men’s football team.

The only game in English football history to be abandoned due to a shortage of players.

In 2006, a match-fixing scandal rocked Italian football

Diana Ross' iconic penalty miss at the 1994 World Cup

The Gulf state's first and only World Cup appearance, with a camel as team mascot

How Zaire's reaction to Brazil's free-kick in the 1974 World Cup became folklore.

How the Netherlands' style and flair stole the show at the 1974 World Cup

The cardiologist who saved the Bolton footballer after he had a heart attack on the pitch

Defender Micah Richards on the most exciting finish ever to the English football season.

How Nadine Angerer became Germany's penalty saving heroine

The cult hero whose real life didn't match his computer stardom

Banned from playing football in her native Scotland, Rose Reilly represented Italy.

Between 1982 and 1984, UEFA held the first European Competition for Women's Football

How England sparked a mood of national euphoria at Euro 96 before it ended in tears

How the Danes won the Euro 92 championship despite not even qualifying for the tournament

How the Czechoslovak midfielder created a daring new style of penalty at Euro 76

How rank outsiders Greece won the 2004 European Football Championship.

How an amazing volley gave Holland their first victory at a big international tournament

Robert Pires on how the French became European champions in dramatic style