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October 2008 and David Beckham had turned his back on European football to set up home in Los Angeles, playing for LA Galaxy and becoming the face of the MLS as football looked to continue growing in the USA.   In his lengthy interview with Guillem Balague,...

With six Majors already to his name, in October 1963, Arnold Palmer was widely regarded as the greatest golfer in the world.   Little wonder then that his game regular came under the Golf Monthly microscope and for the editor, it came as some surprise to discover...

There are few more famous horses in the world than the white Lipizanner stallions of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Back in October 1978, they made a rare visit to the UK to perform at Wembley for a week.   Horse & Hound’s Michael Clayton had had a...

Autosport’s edition from October 10 1985 celebrated a first ever F1 win for Britain’s Nigel Mansell, as well as Alain Prost’s success in clinching the driver’s championship at the same race.   It was the Grand Prix of Europe, held at Brands Hatch which, given the...

‘From Norwich - it’s the quiz of the week!’ Readers of a certain age will recall the intro to ITV’s ‘Sale of the Century’ one of the most popular quiz shows of the 1970s, which featured on TV Times’ front cover in October 1976.   Inside the magazine though, there...

On the eve of the Rugby World Cup in 2003, Rugby World was shrewd enough to seek out England’s fly-half Jonny Wilkinson for an interview to gauge his views on England’s prospects.   Four years earlier, after an educational defeat at the hands of the All Blacks,...

As the Caravan Club prepared to celebrate their centenary, the October 2006 issue of their magazine was a suitably special edition at 156 pages.   Among a number of special features, they caught up with racing driver Mark Blundell who had a longstanding...

It is January 1958. Christmas is over, the decorations are about to come down and it’s freezing outside - and not much warmer inside here, either. Time to banish those post-Christmas blues with thoughts of a summer holiday, Cliff Richard or no Cliff Richard.   As...

Targeted advertising is perhaps the best way of getting must bag for your marketing buck, and the Royal International Horse Show certainly took that approach in April 1983 with a full page splash in Horse & Hound.   With the show heading for London’s White...

The 2012 Euros were fast approaching and naturally enough, many brands were looking to use the England team to help promote their products in anticipation of a glorious tournament. Moving on…   FourFourTwo featured a number of England men who had been corralled...

As in June 1975, so today – the golfer, be he the top pro or the humblest amateur, wants to find a golf ball that will travel further and truer than any other.   If its going to do that, the ball needs to stay in shape and Uniroyal reckoned they had cracked it...

Nothing sells like success, or so they say, and amid the epic Formula 1 season of 1976, the Hunt v Lauda battle, that was very much the case.   In the immediate aftermath of James Hunt securing the title amid the rains of Suzuka, on 28 October 1976, Autosport was...

August 1999 and the Observer was looking to boost its readership ahead of the new rugby season with a hard hitting ad in the pages of Rugby World.   Just a quarter of a century ago, clearly it was beyond the wit of marketing managers and Observer editors to...

November 1994 and the inveterate tourer’s fancy might just have been turning towards a new caravan for a new year.   Elddis was a big name in that market and with its 30th anniversary to celebrate, it wanted to ensure that En Route readers thought no further than...

The February 2021 issue of the Caravan & Motorhome Club Magazine was looking to cast off the pall of winter and turn its gaze to sunnier days to come later in the British year. Optimistic of them.   They were doing the work of the tourist board by suggesting...

This magnificent picture of horse and rider in peril graced the front cover of Horse & Hound in August 1969, an image that must have leapt off the newsstand, much like the horses leapt for safety off the famous bank at Hickstead.   The image in question was...

While we are on the subject of arresting cover shots, Rugby World used this excellent action study of England scrum-half Roger Pickering on its May 1967 cover.   Pickering, bearing more than a passing resemblance to Bill Owen, or Compo in ‘Last of the Summer...

Nobody had done it before, nobody has done it since, and it’s looking likely that nobody ever will.   This great photograph from the June 1986 edition of Golf Monthly shows Jack Nicklaus pretty much on his knees after leaving his final approach putt stone dead at...

Hancock’s Half Hour was one of the great BBC staples of the 1950s and early 1960s, initially on radio and then on television as The Lad Himself became one of the most popular comedy stars in the country.   What is often forgotten though is that he did eventually...

In their November 2010 edition, FourFourTwo paid suitable homage the greatest footballer of them all, Pele, as he celebrated his 70th birthday.   A string of superb photographs were featured in the piece as Pele gave brief answers to some of the most asked...