Two days before the 1992 cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand began, Pakistan captain Imran Khan was a broken man. Khan, an allrounder, had torn the tendons in his right shoulder. “I was in no condition to bat or bowl or even do any fielding. I played with pain killers and cortisone injections […]
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A MIRACLE IN REGGIO EMILIA
The last miracle in Italian football occurred on a Sunday in May 1991, when U.C. Sampdoria won their first – and so far only – Serie A title, pipping defending champions AC Milan to the Scudetto. Thirty-one years later, Milan conjured a miracle of their own on a Sunday evening in May in the northern […]