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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoBRASSED OFF!
LAWRENCE COHEN couldn’t give hoot about the trum pets and drums that follow England The England Band THEY lack wit...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWHERE’S THE PASSION IN DEAR OLD ROY?
JAMES OWENS just can’t get excited about the new Three Lions boss WATCHING Ricky Tomlinson as the haphazard, heart-on-sleeve gaffer he...
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/ 13 years agoKEEPING THE SHIP AFLOAT
SIMON HUGHES shines light on an appeal to give a team formed in 1894 a bright future THE wooden hub of...
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/ 13 years agoRANDOM… WITH PATRICK JOHN
DID YOU KNOW As the European Championship approaches – and thoughts turn to the blessed Germans winning again – it...
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/ 13 years agoGREEN BY NAME GREEN BY NATURE
ALAN JOHNSON explains how banning bangers has been a recipe for success and made Forest Green hungry to serve more eco...
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/ 13 years agoWHEN FINISHING THIRD CAN MEAN RELEGATION
DUNLAVY DUNLAVY figures out that the Argentinian method of where teams finish in the league table is a number-crunching game SO,...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoUNSUNG HEROES OF THE EUROS
CHRIS DUNLAVY contemplates the star wars that resulted in players with silky skills crashing off the international radars WE all remember...
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/ 13 years agoIN A STATE OVER BRITISH FOOTBALL
American media man ANDY ELRICK lifts the lid on why he’s a sucker for ‘soccer’ IAM not sure what the average...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTURN OFF THE TV AND GET DOWN TO THE GAME
NICK YOUNG laments the slow transition from terrace to television – and urges fans to bin the box for some real...
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Features
/ 13 years agoGEORGIANS ON THE MIND AT MAN CITY
It hasn’t always been big bucks and glory with foreign players in the blue half of Manchester. IAIN THOMSON looks at...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWelcome to late tackle
As ever, thanks for buying the magazine. It’s the summer, it’s the Euros and yet another season of madness is over....
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoLETS ALL MEET UP IN THE YEAR 2000
DAVID CHILDS reveals his Bhoy-hood memories WHILE walking down Byers Road in Glasgow’s West End, I found myself stopping to enter...
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/ 13 years agoIS MESSI BETTER THAN PELE AND WHO CARES?
NEIL SCOTT is sick of the scramble to quantify everything in football Diego Maradona,Lionel Messi,Pele Lionel Messie slaloms through yet another...
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Features
/ 13 years agoSub goalies flap like Icarus near the sun
CHRIS DUNLAVY THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST WHAT’S killing football? Some say diving. Others say money. Quite a lot say Sky....
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoITAL DO NICELY AND ALL FOR A TON
KRIS GRIFFIN does Serie A on a shoestring Stadio Olimpico Toto Schillaci WALKING through the urban sprawl of the Olympic Village...
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/ 13 years agoGOING SOFT? FOOTBALL IS FEROCIOUS THESE DAYS
PAUL WILLS explodes the myth that the game’s lost its physicality AS MUCH as I'd have liked to get physical with...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoLOVE AFFAIR WITH AN OLD LADY
DAVID HASTINGS on Alessandro Del Piero and Juventus – one of football’s most enduring relationships ON the 25th March 2012, Alessandro...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE MANAGERS STRIKES BACK
CHRIS DUNLAVY recalls when passion reached boiling point and trouble brewed Paolo Di Canio VERBAL abuse is as much a part...
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Features
/ 13 years agoThey think it’s all r-over… It is now (Just like the fans said it would be)
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS BLACKBURN fans have got every right to feel robbed, resentful and wronged right now – and not only because...
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Features
/ 13 years agoTV cash in danger of wrecking Euros
Walsh. s world KRISTIAN WALSH HAS A NEW VISION FOR TELLY WHEN Marco van Basten lifted Russia’s ball into the air,...
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Features
/ 13 years agoKnow-nothing owners should stay in their hospitality boxes
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS IMAGINE walking into a garage, taking the spanner from a mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate –...
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Retro
/ 13 years agoTHE WAY WE WERE…
What happened to the old grounds when they closed? Plough Lane IN the big bucks era of the Premier League it’s...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoRANDOM…
WITH PATRICK JOHN DID YOU KNOW While the rest of this sea-faring nation marked the centenary of the sinking of...
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/ 13 years agoIT CAN MEAN LIFE OR DEATH
CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some illustrious, and fatal, relegations River Plate players in 2011 TOO Good to go down? Tell that to...
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Features
/ 13 years agoStars of the future who fell to earth
CHRIS DUNLAVY-THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST PICKING a star of the future can be embarrassing. Remember when everyone thought John Bostock...
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/ 13 years agoRELEGATION… THE MOST FEARED WORD IN THE FOOTBALL DICTIONARY
MARTIN ‘Jimmy’ TARBUCK from Wigan fanzine The Mudhutter is dreading the drop. To prepare himself for the worst, he spoke to...
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/ 13 years agoALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT, IN THE DUGOUT IS SIMPLY EXHAUSTING
TONY MOGAN reveals his guilty secret It’s 3:37 am. I’ve been sat in this dark room, hunched over my laptop, eyes...
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/ 13 years agoThey used to Pong, now they’re potent
PAUL BROWN remembers the humble beginnings of the console togger EACH new instalment of FIFA and Pro Evo, EA Sports’ and...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoSTAND FOR THE TERRAGE
ANDREW CHERRIE wonders why a safe solution can’t be found for the serial standers at football TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND people stand...
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/ 13 years agoWHEN THEY ALL CRIED FOUL AND LOVES IT!
PETER BATEMAN gets all dewy-eyed over a short-lived footie mag from the 70s OSTALGIA Chelsea’s Ron Harris was king of the...
