“The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space,” wrote Michel Foucault in 1967. Even while the French philosopher was composing “Of Other Spaces”, an exploration of human spatial ...

Johan Cruyff, one of the greatest footballers in history, died on Thursday at the age of 68 from lung cancer, his family announced. Cruyff "died peacefully in Barcelona, surrounded by his family after ...

In the fourth of our World Cup icons series, BBC Sport tells the story of how Johan Cruyff and the Netherlands' Total Football captured the world's imagination in 1974. It was a summer that played out ...

George Best, Bobby Charlton and a few more would have their backers, but Johan Cruyff would be the popular choice among hard-headed observers as the finest European footballer of the 20th century.