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Jack Charlton with his assistant manager Maurice Setters after the 1990 World Cup quarter-final. Both men died in 2020. File photograph: Inpho
Maradona and Jack Charlton among the sporting greats we lost in 2020

The two men could hardly have been more different, other than, in their own way, each became footballing deity. Diego Maradona’s death, at the age of(...)

Former Manchester United and Northern Ireland goalkeeper Harry Gregg. Photograph: PA
Harry Gregg: a reluctant hero and a revered shot stopper
  • Soccer
  • February 17, 2020, 07:51

Harry Gregg was happy to be remembered as many things — footballer, goalkeeper, Manchester United player, Northern Ireland international and grassroot(...)

Paul Scholes celebrates a goal for Manchester United against PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League, at Old Trafford on October 18th, 2000. Photograph: John Giles/PA
Manchester United’s celebrated academy set for new landmark

Scott McTominay is the latest poster boy of a remarkable Manchester United academy that has produced the Busby Babes, George Best, and the Class of ’9(...)

Harry Gregg makes a save for Manchester United in August 1958. Photograph: Getty
Bravery and goodness: Harry Gregg, the reluctant hero of Munich

Up there on the northern tip of the island, the hero sits. He looks through a window of the new house they found up an unmarked track off a winding ro(...)