People & Stories
The human side of the game — profiles, comebacks, rivalries and the people behind the players. Data-driven narratives built to be read long after the result.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The Miracle of Bern: the 1954 World Cup final
Overwhelming underdogs against the greatest team of the era, West Germany came from two goals down to beat Hungary in the 1954 World Cup final — a shock that reached far beyond football.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The 1977 Trail Blazers and Blazermania
Playing some of the most beautiful team basketball the league has seen, the 1977 Portland Trail Blazers won an unlikely championship and sparked a wave of devotion that gripped an entire city.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The 1970 Knicks and Willis Reed's Game 7
Built on selfless team basketball, the 1970 New York Knicks won their first championship in a Game 7 defined by an injured captain's unforgettable act of will.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
Il Grande Torino and the Superga disaster
The greatest Italian team of its age, Il Grande Torino dominated the 1940s and formed the heart of the national side — until a plane crash on the Superga hill took the entire team in a single afternoon.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The 2008 Boston Celtics and the Big Three
By uniting three established stars around a shared hunger for a title, the 2008 Boston Celtics restored one of basketball's proudest franchises and showed how quickly sacrifice can turn into a championship.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The 1996 Chicago Bulls and the 72-win season
Driven by a returning superstar and a roster of perfectly matched talents, the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls produced the greatest regular season the league had ever seen and capped it with a title.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
Greece at Euro 2004: the impossible triumph
Rank outsiders with no stars and a reputation for caution, Greece defied every prediction to win the European Championship, pulling off one of the greatest shocks in the history of the game.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
Denmark at Euro 1992: the uninvited champions
Denmark did not even qualify for the 1992 European Championship, called up only as late replacements — and then, against all logic, went on to win the whole thing.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The Invincibles: Arsenal's unbeaten season
In 2003-04 Arsène Wenger's Arsenal did what no team had done across a full modern Premier League campaign — they went the entire season without losing a single match.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The Busby Babes and the road back from Munich
Matt Busby built a team of brilliant young players who seemed destined to dominate Europe, until tragedy struck at Munich — and then, a decade later, rebuilt the club into champions of the continent.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The 2011 Dallas Mavericks: toppling the superteam
A veteran Dallas side written off before the Finals began stunned a newly assembled Miami superteam, turning a decade of near-misses into one of basketball's great redemption stories.
- Feature4 Sept 2026
The 2004 Detroit Pistons: champions without a superstar
Against a Los Angeles Lakers side stacked with future Hall of Famers, the 2004 Detroit Pistons proved that defence, unity and a team without a single superstar could still conquer the NBA.
- Feature26 Aug 2026
Yao Ming: the bridge between two basketball worlds
A 7-foot-6 center from Shanghai became the NBA's number one pick, an eight-time All-Star, and something bigger than a player — the doorway through which a billion new fans found the game.
- Feature26 Aug 2026
The Miracle of Istanbul: Liverpool's impossible comeback
Three-nil down at half-time to the best team in Europe, Liverpool did something no one had ever done in a Champions League final — and turned one night into legend.
- Feature26 Aug 2026
The Class of '92: the kids who won everything
A pundit sneered that you could not win anything with kids. A group of Manchester United academy graduates spent the next decade proving him gloriously wrong.
- Feature26 Aug 2026
Muggsy Bogues: the 5-foot-3 giant of the NBA
In a league built for giants, the shortest player in NBA history lasted fourteen seasons — not despite his size, but by turning it into a weapon.
- Feature26 Aug 2026
The 1992 Dream Team: the greatest team ever assembled
For the first time the NBA sent its superstars to the Olympics, and the result wasn't a competition — it was a coronation that carried basketball to the world.
- Feature26 Aug 2026
Leicester City 2016: the 5,000-to-1 miracle
A team tipped for relegation, at odds bookmakers offered for finding the Loch Ness Monster, won the Premier League — the greatest underdog story football has produced.
- Feature26 Aug 2026
Andrés Iniesta: the quiet genius who scored when it mattered most
No swagger, no headlines, just a pale, unassuming midfielder who controlled the biggest games of his era — and struck the goal that made Spain world champions.