Clash of the Titans

The two intense fights in the early nineties between Nigel "the Dark Destroyer" Benn and Chris "Simply the Best" Eubank enthralled the nation, as huge television audiences tuned in to see the bitter clash of two talented but totally contrasting characters. Benn, Eubank and a host of boxing glitterati relive the build-up, the genuine enmity that smouldered between the pair, the deals cut by promoters that would affect the sport for ever, the fights themselves and the bloody aftermath of the clashes at Birmingham and Old Trafford

The intense cultural and religious rivalry between these two sporting giants is traced from its social backgrounds in the dockyards of Glasgow to its current position in European soccer, a long-standing enmity that inspired one commentator to observe that "in the middle of it all a football match broke out". Chairmen, players, managers and fans relive sweet victories, bitter defeats, riots and protests

To the uninitiated the Ryder Cup could be described as a friendly golf tournament that turned nasty when the Americans started losing in the mid-eighties. Some of golfing's greatest names, Tony Jacklin , Seve Ballesteros , Peter Alliss , Lee Trevino and Nick Faldo , examine the cauldron of dirty tricks that soured the most gentlemanly of games

In 1972, at the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer faced the Soviet master Boris Spassky in a match that was to become a political chess game between west and east. Those involved recall the players' paranoia, culminating in Fischer having all his fillings removed because he thought they might help the KGB read his mind.

The annual Home Championship fixture between England and Scotland aroused enormous passion, especially on the part of Scottish fans, who enjoyed nothing better than the chance to take on and beat the Auld Enemy. Top players, including Tom Finney , Tommy Docherty , Emlyn Hughes and Gordon McQueen , recall this inter-nation rivalry.

The last in the series on key sporting clashes goes behind the scenes of the US Army and Navy academies to follow the build-up to American football's biggest rivalry. Such is the desire to take part in the game, which is second only to the Superbowl, that players, such as Army captain Neil Ravitz , commit themselves to nine years in military service