Sometimes you witness the precise moment a promising talent moves up several gears into the major league. For the man they call Super Mario, it happened in just 48 minutes. Last night, Balotelli scored two, created one and won the penalty for another. He even had to be dragged away from ta ...

They taunt you and they hack you. But you know what you need from the game. Three points. A performance to keep your place. To crush your fiercest rivals. So when you’re brought down again, for the seventh time – that’s when you get up, rise above it and turn the game. ...

Black, brooding and with a V for victory slashed across its chest, Man U’s new strip has been engineered to inspire the away win – before a ball’s even been kicked. Like the home strip, this kit is rooted in a century of history, with elements taken from the very first Old Trafford season ...

Celtic have swarmed all over the Scottish Premier League title in recent years. Their hunt for further success sees the return of the famous bumblebee stripes to the new club kits for 2009/10. While the classic home strip remains untouched, the team’s new away kit has the familiar bu ...

There’s no one like Inter. The only club to have never dropped from the country’s top tier, it’s been a century since they won their first major trophy. And they’re not finished yet. The classic blue and black stripes of the new home shirt – unaligned from back to front – echo the design w ...