Inter Milan will face Manchester City in their sixth Champions League final on Saturday.

For the Nerazzurri this is a great opportunity to win a fourth title, their last came in 2010 against Bayern Munich but their first came all the way back in 1964 at the Praterstadion in Vienna.

The team was managed by legendary manager Helenio Herrera who played a very effective 1-3-5-1 formation with star full-backs Tarcisio Burgnich and Giacinto Facchetti.

Playing in attacking midfield just behind the strikers was Sandro Mazzola, who is considered one of the greatest players Inter has ever produced, alongside Luis Suarez the original.

A star Spanish midfielder at Barcelona he left to play for Inter Milan in 1961.

Opposite them were the giants Real Madrid.

Between 1956 and 1960 Los Blancos won five European titles.

Miguel Munoz had played in three of those finals and won one as a manager.

They still played with the ferocious trio of Ferenc Puskas, Alfredo Di Stefano, and Francisco Gento, three of the greatest players to have ever played for Real.

Inter took the lead just before half-time as Mazzola shot from outside the area, the ball dipping over the keeper’s outstretched arms.

Real Madrid started the fight back in the second half, but Gento’s shot only managed to hit the post.

Inter were playing counter-attacking football and on the hour mark Aurelio Milani put them 2-0 up as they turned defence into attack in a flash, another shot that Real Madrid couldn’t keep out.

Real Madrid pulled one back ten minutes later through midfielder Felo, an acrobatic display that Gareth Bale or Cristiano Ronaldo would have been proud of.

Felo flicked the ball up in the air with his knee before doing an overhead kick from inside the six-yard box.

However, Inter wrapped up the game 3-1 with Mazzola scoring from a terrible clearance by the normally reliable Jose Santamaria.

Inter will use this win as inspiration ahead of their clash against City on Saturday.

On the weekend of the 100th anniversary of the 24H of Le Mans, we could be treated to one of its best races ever.

This season’s Hypercar series plus the return of some of the biggest Motorsport teams and some fantastic drivers with plenty of former champions, just makes you salivate.

This could be the best year of Le Mans since 1998, arguably the biggest year for the GT1 class that raced from 1993 until 2011.

Over the course of the 1980’s, Porsche had come to dominate the world of endurance motorsport with the C1 class Porsche 962 and 956.

But as the decade came to a close, new constructors’ teams were building faster and more reliable versions of the C1 class, until Porsche came back with the LMGT1 class.

Short-lived in its time at the top, it still produced some of the most iconic cars to have ever raced at Le Mans, whilst also being homologated for public use.

The McLaren F1 is arguably the greatest car ever built and it won Le Mans in 1995, with three other McLaren F1’s making up the top five.

Not to be outdone, Mercedes-Benz released the CLK which at the time was considered a monster of touring cars and endurance racing.

They won the 1997 drivers and manufacturers titles having won six of the 11 races in the FIA GT championship.

They returned in 1998 winning the first two FIA GT championship races ahead of entering Le Mans officially for the first time since 1955.

Porsche of course is the team to beat, but this season they looked like they could be beaten.

Mercedes had blown their competitors out of the water in the qualifying, finishing one whole second faster than the Toyota GT-one and two seconds faster than both Porsche GT1 cars.

With both Mercedes CLK cars ahead of Porsche in qualifying, they looked like favourites, especially as both McLaren F1’s started low down the grid.

The stage was set for an epic race around the old Circuit de la Sarthe and a battle between two German engineering behemoths.

With Bernd Schneider of Mercedes on pole ahead of Martin Brundle in the Toyota, Mercedes got out ahead narrowly in the first lap and had made a great start.

It was not to be for the returning Silver Arrows, their first car driven by Schneider, Mark Webber, and Klaus Ludwig would retire after 19 laps and the second car would retire after 31 laps.

Martin Brundle’s Toyota finished after 191 laps, and Porsche was left far ahead in the field with only Nissan able to compete, as their R390 GT1 car finished a couple of laps behind.

Debutant Frenchman, Laurent Aïello, second-year Scotsman Allan McNish, and veteran Monegasque Stephane Ortelli took the victory, all three for the first time.  

Porsche would get a one-two on the podium to boot.

McNish would win a further two Le Mans races, whilst Mercedes would go on to win the remaining eight FIA GT races and the championship in 1998.

Le Mans is ready to bring back the classic rivalries with the first class of Hypercars going to wage battle on the old track.

In a much-anticipated men’s singles final between Novak Djokovic and Stefanos Tsitsipas, we saw the great Serbian tennis player fall and rise, yet again.

Djokovic came into the tournament as one of the favourites.

He had won the French Open in 2016 beating Andy Murray but had lost the previous year in Covid hit 2020 to Rafael Nadal in straight sets.

Djokovic had up to that point amassed 18 Grand Slams, whilst in the same timeline Nadal and Federer had each won 20 Grand Slams.

The vast majority of Nadal’s have come in the French Open, he is quite simply the “King of Clay”.

Djokovic defeated his rival in the semi-finals, a rare feat at Roland Garros.

On the other side, is the young Greek Tsitsipas who was rising through the ranks becoming one of the best tennis players around.

He had reached a couple of semi-finals, but he finally managed to go all the way in 2021 at the French Open, beating Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev on the way.

The first set was a real boxing match, neither player could escape the other, Tsitsipas played some of his best tennis to take the first set 7-6.

The second set was more straightforward for the long-haired Greek who won 6-2.

Then, as per usual, Djokovic turned up the gears.

Whilst Tsitsipas was still performing heartily with some fantastic shots, the Serb won the third set 6-3 and pushed on in the fourth.

Power and composure define Djokovic’s career, and in the fourth set, he won 6-2 without breaking a sweat, keeping Tsitsipas at bay.

In the final set, Djokovic mauled Tsitsipas, leaving little margin for error which as the brash, young, and resourceful Greek found out there was still plenty of error in him.

Djokovic won 6-4 winning his second Grand Slam of the year and his 19th overall.

Two dynasties clashed for the first time in 2013, the Heat a small dynasty looking to get their third title, and the Spurs a big dynasty 15 years in the making.

Miami Heat had signed Lebron James from Cleveland Cavaliers to win the NBA finals and they did just that.

Alongside Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh the Heat had reached the 2011 finals losing to Dallas Mavericks but came back a year later to win against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Miami made it three finals in a row but was about to meet their biggest and toughest opponents yet.

The San Antonio Spurs under coach Gregg Popovich had won four NBA titles since 1999, never losing a finals series in the process.

This was their fifth finals appearance under “Pops” with Tim Duncan winning all those rings.

Duncan is widely regarded as one of the greatest power forwards ever, and more than a match for the legend in making Lebron James.

Lebron would start the series with a triple-double despite a 98-88 loss for the Heat in Miami.

They would level the series before going to Texas with a 103-84 blowout win over San Antonio.

In San Antonio much of the same happened as the Spurs took the series in a 113-77 blowout of their own, only for Miami to come back with a 109-93 win, Lebron scoring 33 points in the game.

San Antonio would retake the lead in game five in Miami, but the showpiece would come next.

In what some consider one of the greatest games of all time, Lebron got his second triple-double of the finals, the first person to do it since Magic Johnson in 1991 for the Los Angeles Lakers.

The Heat and the Spurs went back and forth with Lebron scoring 32 points and his opposite number Tim Duncan scoring 30 points, the Heat would in Overtime 103-100 to force game seven back in Miami.

The final match once again proved just how great Lebron James was, with 37 points in the game and his second NBA finals MVP award as well.

Miami won 95-88 to win their third title. The two would repeat the finals the next season this time San Antonio would get their revenge.

Hockey night in Canada is always special, but even more so when it’s the Stanley Cup finals.

Calgary Flames reached their first finals in 15 years, becoming the first Canadian team in the finals since Vancouver Canucks 10 years earlier.

The Flames were not expected to go all the way but somehow managed to do so on the back of Jarome Iginla.

On the opposite side was the Tampa Bay Lightning making their first-ever appearance in the finals.

Calgary and Tampa traded wins in the first few games with the Flames winning 4-1 and losing 4-1 in Tampa

Upon returning to Alberta Calgary won 3-0 then lost 1-0 to the Lightning.

Things really heated up in game five as both Jarome Iginla and Tampa’s Martin Saint Louis scored their third goals of the series.

As the game went to overtime it was Russian Oleg Saprykin the hero for the Flames who score 14 minutes into the extra period on the ice.

Calgary blew it in game six.

Twice they fell behind in the second period to Brad Richards’ goals and twice they levelled, but inside a minute of overtime, Martin Saint Louis scored the game-winner to take it to game seven.

The Flames, kicking themselves at the missed opportunity, would be deflated upon their return to Florida for the fateful final games.

Ruslan Fedotenko opened the scoring, with a diving slapshot past the goaltender.

the Ukrainian, Fedotenko, saved his best match for last and doubled the lead with a shot thundering past Miikka Kiprusoff.

Craig Conroy scored on the power play to set up a nervous last ten minutes in Florida.

But to no avail, Tampa lifted the cup on the back of incredible playoffs by Richards and St Louis.

Florida’s other team, the Panthers, is hoping to bring the cup back to the sunshine state for the third time in four years.