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“When I was a young pro at Nottingham Forest, I lived literally 200 yards away from the local dog track. I liked a punt and I soon became a regular

Club supportedCoventry City. Clubs played forI joined Coventry when I was eight, but they released me at 16. I was offered a trial at Villa and haven’t looked back. StrengthsMy

Goalkeeper: Peter Shilton Shilton was one of my heroes as a kid. I watched him play in the FA Cup final when I was eight years old, then I ended

It’s rare to meet a genuine life-long supporter of any football team. Although the term is bandied about with what approaches abandon, few have in fact devoted themselves to a

Harry Redknapp answers FourFourTwo readers’ questions back in September 2003, when he was manager of Portsmouth. Harry Redknapp’s image is as enduring as jumpers for goalposts. Even at 200 yards,

GoalkeeperPeter ShiltonThe goalkeeper’s position was a close run thing between Peter Shilton, Ray Clemence and Peter Bonetti. Shilts just edges it. He was a superb shot-stopper. You tend to fancy

First, theSunderlandviewpoint, fromJonathan Wilson… The first thing you see when you pull intoSunderlandstation is the city crest and beneath it the mottoNil desperandum, auspice deo– ‘Don’t despair, trust in God’.

In a city as crowded and polluted as modern day Cairo it is easy to lose any sensation that you are in the midst of the world’s oldest civilisation. Cairo

“I’m gonna get hammered by the lads when they see this. They probably think I’m mad but I like conversing with people in their own languages. Life is a learning

On a damp Saturday night, 80,000 expectant fans flock to the leafy, well-heeled western outskirts of Milan, Italy’s football and fashion capital. From the outside, the three-tiered San Siro stadium