Here’s the story behind its creation and how it went from being planned to be smuggled into the UEFA-controlled Etihad Stadium on matchday to it being revealed in the city’s most iconic park.

Pep Guardiola knows this run in the UEFA Champions League could be last chance saloon for his excellent Manchester City side.

The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia is just around the corner, meaning so too is the prospect of the dreaded penalty shootout.

England’s U17 stars catapulted themselves onto the global stage in October by trouncing Spain 5-2 in the World Cup final.

He has scored 53 goals in an England shirt and appeared for the Three Lions on more than 100 occasions but Everton’s Wayne Rooney insists his appearance at the 2002 UEFA European Under-17 Championship was the launchpad for his career.

Last week’s Champions League action provided talking-points aplenty, but BT Sport’s exclusivity is plain wrong.

As Roy Hodgson’s England troops travel to Stadio Olimpico in Serravalle to face perennial whipping boys San Marino in Euro 2016 qualifying, the long-winded debate surrounding these David vs. Goliath matches reappears.

The shortlist features the world’s 55 best players, including Argentinians Aguero and Pablo Zabaleta, Ivory Coast’s Yaya Toure, and club captain Belgian Vincent Kompany.

Bayern Munich fans forced to watch Champion’s League match against CSKA Moscow from the top of a skyscraper after officials ordered the game be played behind close doors due to racist behaviour and crowd trouble.

CSKA Moscow had been forced to play their Champions League home games against Manchester City and Bayern Munich with no fans present, but there appeared to be up to 300 home fans present at both games while visiting fans were turned away, leaving them up to £1,000 out of pocket.

Manchester City and Bayern Munich fans will ditch their differences to protest against Uefa at the beginning of their crucial Champions League group game at the Etihad Stadium.