Beckenbauer, wearing the proudest of smiles, was there again, on Wednesday night as the current Bayern Munich vintage reached the final of the European Cup, which has now been revamped to include the Champions’ League.
The influence of the Kaiser, now the club’s president, still pervades Bavaria’s footballing capital. He was, significantly, one of the first [...]

It was commissioned by the Cancer Research Campaign and carried out by researchers from the Office of National Statistics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It shows that for every cancer bar one, five-year survival rates improved over the two decades from 1971 to 1990, many by between 10 and 20 per [...]

He said the board had written to Wassall today to say why the bid had been rejected.Mr Jones told The Independent he had already had one shareholder telephone to urge him to consider the increased offer carefully. He added that others were urging him to reject it.”What I’m going to tell them is that actually [...]

This is because normal political differences are reinforced by the various religious, ethnic and class loyalties.Such floating voters as do exist are enthusiastically pursued by all parties.This is particularly true of the Russian immigrants, whose voting patterns are considered more fluid than those of other communities. Party leaders were yesterday courting Igor Ivanov, the Russian [...]

After a dozen years in the job, Alex Ferguson has created a team that is greater than the sum of its expensive and talented individuals. And, at long last, Manchester United have learnt what it takes to win back the trophy they hold most dear.UNITED’S EUROPEAN GLORY NIGHTS1965-66 Quarter-final second legBenfica 1 Man Utd 5George [...]

“One of my teachers was Jason Wing, who played for the London Crusaders, and he said that my game was more suited to league.”Wing, a British bobsleigh international who was one of the wackier signings by the club that later evolved into the Broncos, has turned out to be a good judge, but Peters did [...]

Or maybe, in fact almost definitely maybe, you will do nothing at all about it. For all the attempts to arouse feelings of concerted pride in the breasts of Englishmen and women, most of Albion remains stubbornly unmoved by the feast The only truly enthusiastic groups appear to be right-wing newspaper columnists, doggedly prophesying a [...]

It’s the natural way he plays.”Even so White should have levelled the match at 8-8 when he led 60-49 in the 16th frame and needed only the blue to leave McManus requiring snookers. The fact that he left it rattling in the jaws of a top corner pocket was, he said, symptomatic of the state [...]

One analyst said: “It is not true to say the market was prepared for this. They seem to have had a major stock problem and didn’t seem to get enough Nike and Adidas stock until the beginning of April.”Some analysts suggested that the warning increased market suspicions that the sports sector has gone off the [...]

“What? Toshing people’s houses?” asks the hapless hero’s ex-girlfriend. Not in the OED, this Seventies word for decorating comes from the dialect toshy: muddy, as in toshers who scavenge sewers for valuables; and, paradoxically enough, perhaps an echo of an 18th-century Scottish word to mean neat, clean. Huggins’s novel is not tosh (either from the [...]