The Archive

Sheffield invented the football club, keeps the world's snooker, seasons everything with a sauce nobody else understands, and built two world wars with its bare hands. This is the Steel City, told properly.

Three days after a wartime final at Wembley, Tom Finney was on a troopship to the Egyptian desert. He gave his prime to the Eighth Army, played football on the sand, and came home one of England's greatest. The first name on the Desert XI team sheet.