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Quiddities: an interactive review of the oddities of the year

Wednesday 24 December 1997

1. How many camels were killed in Britain by lightning in 1997?

Football: Iraqis cleared after allegations of torturing footballers

Saturday 08 November 1997

AROUND THE WORLD

Football: Barcelona banished from Europe

Thursday 06 November 1997

A humiliating 4-0 home defeat by Dynamo Kiev at the Nou Camp last night meant that Barcelona cannot now qualify from Group C of the Champions' League. A first-half hat-trick by Andrei Shevchenko left Dynamo Kiev as the clear favourites to win the group.

Football: Deane to return to Blades

Wednesday 23 July 1997

Brian Deane is to return to Sheffield United from Leeds United in a knockdown pounds 1m deal this week, writes Alan Nixon.

Football: around the world

Friday 28 March 1997

Bolivia

Were Forest robbed in 1984?; around the world

Friday 21 February 1997

Belgium

Football: Miracle man quits Mouscron to become national coach

Friday 24 January 1997

Football around the world

A sad thought about Wales is that by the turn of the century it will be marooned as a fourth-rate football nation on a par with Cyprus and San Marino

Monday 16 December 1996

There was a time when if you imagined a Great Britain team there would have been some serious contenders from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Without going too far back in time how about George Best, John Charles, Denis Law, Dave Mackay, Danny Blanchflower, Jim Baxter, Cliff Jones and Ivor Allchurch.

Portugal end Turkish dreams

Saturday 15 June 1996

reports from the City Ground

Turkey and Croatia anxious to impress

Tuesday 11 June 1996

Turkey v Croatia Today, City Ground 7.30pm

A proud moment for the under-achievers

Thursday 06 June 1996

CHAMPIONSHIP COUNTDOWN: No 12 Turkey

Days of despair now a memory: Turkey

Monday 03 June 1996

1 Adnan Erkan Ankaragucu

Hughes may suffer lengthy ban

Wednesday 03 April 1996

Chelsea's fading realisation of European competition next season is likely be suffer another setback today when Mark Hughes, their striker, faces a Football Association commission to explain his burgeoning disciplinary record.

Seedorf puts the Dutch on their way

Thursday 16 November 1995

The Netherlands, the champions in 1988, kept alive their interest in the European Championship with a 3-0 win over Norway in their last Group Five qualifying match in Rotterdam yesterday.

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