Call them playmakers, fantasista, spielmacher or trequartisti, no position on the pitch fires the imagination like the classic No10. Here we celebrate the virtuosos who have lit up this great competition down the years, taking our pick of the 50 best to have played in the European Cup and Champions League, and asking Danish legend Michael Laudrup how the position has evolved down the years. First though, with the role now seemingly under threat, Graham Hunter salutes the magicians who have beguiled us down the years with supreme technique and otherworldly vision

We’re on song with Union Berlin, aiming high with Football Manager 2024, saluting Shakhtar and Lamine Yamal, and recruiting fan reporters

We celebrate the game’s great No10s, talk fashion with Héctor Bellerín and savour Sir Bobby Charlton’s crowning European Cup glory