Blistering pace. No-look passing. Sledgehammer shooting. Imagine defending for ninety minutes against one of the best strikers on earth. Now multiply that by three. Welcome to the world of the defenders tasked with keeping Manchester United’s striking trio of Wayne Rooney, Cristian ...

European champions are made in the off-season. There aren’t a whole lot of players treading turf who know what it takes to get signed by Barcelona aged twelve, get a call-up to the Spanish national team at 22, and go on to win La Liga, Champions League and European medals before they ...

44 years is a long time to wait for a trophy. But it ended with a split second of hesitation in the German defence. That's all Fernando Torres needed to score the winner. Spain, and Liverpool, went mad. Take it to the next level.

The Torres Song, in Spanish, is now available here to download free to your phone as a ringtone. Venga, chicos

With 75 minutes gone, Turkey were 0-2 down, dead and buried. Then Arda Turan cracks in a goal. A lifeline. 87 minutes, Nihat Kahveci scores. And while everyone else was waiting for penalties, he scored again. Cancel the wake, book the party.