FOOTBALL SHOW 99

Photo Legend History Hawker Demons RAF Display held at Hendon Aerodrome in 1934. The Demon is a fighter-bomber with an all-metal body and fabric-covered wings. It entered service in 1933 and, powered by a supercharged Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine, it has a top speed of 184 mph, making it faster than most contemporary fighters. It has two forward-firing machine guns and a third facing backwards, operated by the observer / bomb aimer. Its bomb load is modest: eight 20-pounders. As well as the Demons, spectators will have seen the Prince of Wales arriving, piloting his own aircraft, Bristol Bulldog fighters attacking bombers, a Cierva Autogyro taking off, some parachute drops and the destruction of a mocked-up building, together with the shooting down in flames of an observation balloon as a finale. Vickers-Supermarine Type 224, a clumsy open-cockpit monoplane with cranked or gull wings and a fixed undercarriage enclosed in trouser fairings or 'spats'. It had been subject to endless...

Photo legend history, Korea Village Farmers House 1934

Photo Legend History, General Lord Rawlinson with the North Russian Expeditionary Force, interrogating the Red Army prisoners, 1919.

When he was 6 years old, his grandfather was shot dead. His family became a refugee, in a war zone. He grew up with the sound of an exploding grenade. The coach said he was too weak and too embarrassed to play football. Today, Luka Modric has just led Croatia as the first #WorldCup final.

Davor Suker was 30 years old when he arrived in France to play with Croatia at the 1998 World Cup. Known as a strong attacker, with fast legs, several years earlier he had participated in the 1990 World Cup Italy as part of the Yugoslav national team which ran aground in the quarter-finals. At the age of 22, Suker only became a reserve during the tournament and had to wait until next year before recording his first appearance from two appearances, before the country broke out. In 1992, Croatia established a national team of its own and Suker who was born in Osijek, a town near the border with Serbia, chose to play for Croatia. When a new and only 4.2 million people were eligible for their first World Cup in 1998, Suker has won the Champions League with Real Madrid and has scored 34 goals in 67 appearances for the Spanish club. In the World Cup France, playing in front with Zvonimir Boban and Robert Prosinecki, the greatness of Suker is clearly visible. He finished the tournament by...

Photo Legend History  Marcel Desailly and Robert Pires 1998. France winner World cup 1998.

In the 1920 Olympic soccer final at Olympisch Stadium in Antwerp, Robert Coppée scored for Belgium with a penalty kick.