Magical MessiI start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year; it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success. So said Lionel Messi in a television advert in 2012, recalling his ascent to greatness at Barcelona. Now aged 32 and in the autumn of his career, the diminutive striker nay, footballing God continues to score at an unthinkable rate of almost a goal a game and could yet add to the 34 club titles (10 La Liga; 6 Copa del Rey; 8

in Perth and Kinross

F1 drivers Nikki Lauda (left) and James Hunt (centre) with Hunt’s girlfriend Jane Birkbeck in Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix

The people in the window and the man smoking outside all seemed to be different characters telling a different story

Now here’s a photograph that’s both nostalgic and rich in football trivia

Proof that fashion is always cyclical

77 years after Fred Perry won his last final

it is so good

Worthily dubbed ‘The Greatest Test’ – at least until Ben Stokes’ heroics at Headingley this summer – the 2005 Ashes Test between England and Australia is the stuff of folklore

to continue their vital environmental campaigns

To capture dawn on the summer solstice at Stonehenge meant an early start for Martin Godwin

the man who delivered the match-winning free-kick to Platt

People from all over India gather to trade camels