Delve into the history books to see what happened "on this week" in sport.

1999: Drugs row forces Dallaglio to resign - May 24

Lawrence Dallaglio's image was in tatters on this week in 1999 when he was forced to resign as England captain after a News of the World article claimed that he had taken and dealt hard drugs in his youth. Dallaglio insisted that he was part of an elaborate set up by the paper who duped him with a proposed big sponsorship deal. The RFU would eventually clear Dallaglio of the more serious accusations that came out although they did fine him £15,000 for bringing the game into disrepute. Despite no real proof emerging that entirely cleared or confirmed the News of the World story, Dallaglio was able to slowly rebuild his reputation and became a sporting hero again when he played a key role in England's 2003 World Cup triumph.

1992: Barcelona finally lift the European Cup - May 20

The 1991-1992 European Cup was significant for a number of reasons. It was the first one to contain a group stage, the first post-Heysel tournament that contained an English side (Arsenal who were knocked out by Benfica), the last time the competition was called the "European Cup" before it was re-branded "the Champions League," and also the first time that Barcelona finally got their hands on the famous Cup. In their previous two appearances in the final, the Spanish side had lost to Benfica in 1961 and Steaua Bucharest in 1986 but a Ronald Koeman free-kick at Wembley was enough for them to defeat Sampdoria.

1990: Baggio swaps Viola for Juve - May 18

There were riots on the streets of Florence when Fiorentina golden boy Roberto Baggio was sold to Juventus for a then world record fee of £7.7 million back in 1990 just before Italy hosted the World Cup. It was mega bucks at the time but the Viola followers felt that no amount of money was enough. Juventus certainly got their money's worth though as he went on to score 115 goals in 201 Serie A matches in Turin, while he also won World Footballer of the Year in 1993. £7.7 million? Pahturned out to be peanuts, sure Spurs paid more than that for Dean Richards.

1970: Government calls halt to South Africa cricket tour of England - May 22

Nobody usually likes it when governments get involved in sport but history reflects favourably on Harold Wilson's 1970 Labour government which reversed a controversial decision by the MCC to allow South Africa to tour England. The MCC were instead forced to play a series of matches against a Rest of the World side, as the South Africa side were unwelcome due to the apartheid system in their country. Many African and Asian countries within the Commonwealth had threatened to boycott that summer's Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh had South Africa been allowed to tour which helped put pressure on the government to act. An MCC statement on the affair read: "With deep regret the council were of the opinion that they had no alternative but to accede to this request (from the government) and they are informing the South African Cricket Association accordingly."

1904: The Federation Internationale de Football Association is founded in Paris - May 21

With international fixtures cropping up all over the place there was clearly a need to form an international football association, and on this week in 1904, the associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Holland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland all met up and decided to set up that pesky body of FIFA that we all know and loathe today (okay maybe we all just hate Sepp Blatter as opposed to the actual association). The British countries joined the following year, but with FIFA still honing their organisation skills it was still left to the FA to orangise the 1908 and 1912 Olympic Games. There were also some post-war problems when countries that had just been at war with each other refused to work together but once the World Cups started rolling around successfully, everybody was soon on board. Today FIFA has 208 members.

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