The centre-forward was one of football’s most remarkable and overlooked players – who then fell victim to a malignant arc of history

In 1937 the south-east London club rushed to Paris one day after beating Huddersfield, to be last-minute stand-ins after fascist-era Italy cancelled for political reasons

A punch thrown in 1905 culminated in 17 City players and four directors being banned over the club’s illegal overspending

The British coach enjoyed such success in Norway with Brann in the 1970s that he was awarded honorary citizen status

A new film tells the story of Carlos Kaiser, who was one of the most famous footballers in Brazil for over 20 years – even though he had no intention of ever kicking a ball

AH Blythe infuriated Newport fans by abandoning a game at 5-1 – and escaped in a police car disguised as an ambulanceman

Sahib Abbas was locked up, tortured and forced to cope with the state-organised murder of his brother and four friends but thrived in remarkable circumstances

The infection was a serious threat to British players in the years before a vaccination was introduced, claiming several lives, including that of the Manchester City full-back in 1902

At the end of the 19th century, the battle for First Division places involved some unwisely scheduled post-season test matches

Primetime TV would prove the inspiration for one of the most shambolic managerial appointments in football history

With Claudio Caniggia at Dens Park and matches being screened live in Argentina, ambitious owners tried to seal the ultimate coup for the club

Fifteen Dutch footballers were among 176 people who died in a 1989 plane crash. Edu Nandlal, one of the survivors, tells his story of the disaster

Fred Spiksley dazzled as an outside-left, but found his far-reaching coaching ideas spurned in England after success abroad, having also dabbled in film and been embroiled in a wartime escape mission

The white ball was widely disliked during trials in 1927 and one manufacturer declared it ‘practically impossible to make’. It would take another 24 years for the Football League to give it the go-ahead

A monster ball, human skittles and even horses featured in a punishing game that captivated the King and bamboozled his subjects in the early 1900s

There has never been a manager like Jim McLean, the tactical genius, bully, visionary and ‘absolute bampot’ behind unimaginable success in the 1980s

When he was on the pitch he wore garish face paint, when he was off it he played in rock bands and caused controversy, but Dubois was a popular figure in Buenos Aires football in the 1990s before meeting an untimely death

It took the sudden passing of the 29-year-old England right-back in 1959 to get typists, secretaries, clerks, schoolboys and the rock’n’roll generation pouring into clinics for inoculation