Sport

The Munich Air Crash

On February 6th, 1958, the BEA aircraft carrying the players and staff of Manchester United football team crashed shortly after taking off at Munich airport. Richard Cavendish describes the accident.

The Death of C.B. Fry

Richard Cavendish examines the career of all-round sportsman Charles Burgess Fry who died September 7th, 1956.

England Loses the World Cup

In March 1966, a few months before the England football team won the World Cup, the Football Association lost the trophy. Martin Atherton tells the full, often farcical, story of the theft and recovery of the Jules Rimet Trophy.

Going to the Dogs

Mike Huggins revisits the early years of British greyhound racing, the smart modern sports craze of interwar Britain.

Argentina’s Left-Wingers

Leslie Ray argues that politics and football have always been inseparable in the land of the ‘hand of God’.