The Late Tackle Magazine Team
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Europe
/ 13 years agoIN GOOD KOMPANY
STEVEN GREEN on the Belgian invasion – and how The Red Devils could soon be international dark horses ON transfer deadline...
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Features
/ 13 years agoIS BRENDAN GETTING RODGERED
GARETH ROBERTS on more baffling boardroom battles at Anfield IT WAS supposed to be the wind of change that Liverpool needed...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoBEHIND THE ENEMY LINES
MARK SANDERSON on how a bitter rivalry is set aside every time Portsmouth pull on their training kit A15-MINUTE DRIVE is...
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Features
/ 13 years agoIs it time to say goodbye to the League Cup?
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS INTERNATIONAL breaks just weeks into the new campaign make little sense. But, if you’re like me and put...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoSEE EVERY GOAL? NOT ON SKY YOU WON’T
Like fingernails down a chalkboard, Sky’s latest advert for its football coverage caused many of us to wince. ASHLEY GREB was...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoEDUCATE MINDS AS WELL AS FEET
JONATHAN NORTH juggles being a university student with playing semi-pro for Wealdstone United. But previously he was a professional at Watford....
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWELCOME TO LATE TACKLE
I’VE written before about something I call ‘the football bubble’. It’s a simple concept – inside it anything goes. People take...
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Features
/ 13 years agoGIVE US JUSTICE FOR HEYSEL!
It’s a terrace shout too often aired just to score points but what are the facts of the matter? OLIVER KAY...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE BIG DEBATE… CRISIS CLUB OR FRONT RUNNER
CAN a football club be in crisis with just 90 minutes of the season on the clock? It seems so if...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoPEDIGREE PIGS IN A POKE…AND OTHER KINDS
CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some unseen big-money buys that came good...and some that didn’t WHEN Steve Kean announced that he hadn’t even...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE MANAGER KNOWS ALL, FANS KNOW F*** ALL!
Managers come in for a lot of stick but PAUL CANTWELL says supporters get their fair share of flak as well...
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Features
/ 13 years agoReasons to be thankful for Rafa
WALSH'S WORLD - Kristian walsh looks at the legacy of rafa benitez LIVERPOOL fans have a lot to thank Rafael Benítez for....
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Features
/ 13 years agoBOOZE, BIRDS AND A FIGHT EVERY WEEK
CHRIS DUNLAVY meets Roy McDonough, sent off 22 times in his career, after rejection cost him his chance of a top...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE NUMBER ONE ONES OF NUMBERS
SAM HUGHES pays tribute to Lev Yashin, the goalkeeper known as The Black Spider “What kind of a goalkeeper is the...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoRON OF THE BEST
Ron Atkinson’s reputation is permanently stained by the low point of his 2004 racist gaffe but PETER BATEMAN says it’s still...
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Features
/ 13 years agoFERGIE’S GLAZER GAFFE WAS AN OLYMPIC-SIZED MISTAKE
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS WITH all the fuss surrounding the Olympic Games, it was a good time to bury bad news –...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoSTAR SIGNINGS THAT CRASHED TO EARTH
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the joyful early season arrivals who proved to be miserable flops instead Emerson Kevin Davies...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoOH MAN, I LOVE AVB
Villas-Boas divides opinions – is he a football genius or a one-season wonder? For JACK HOWES there’s no fence-sitting. In fact,...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoPSG-LEE
It’s not just Manchester City that are being bankrolled to success. DECLAN OLLEY reckons it’s only a matter of time until...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoCHAMPION WHEEZERS OF WORLD
CHRIS DUNLAVY picks his top Xl from those who liked more than the occasional puff behind the bike sheds SMOKING, as...
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Features
/ 13 years agoFAREWELL FRIENDLIES – YOU WON’T BE MISSED
GARETH ROBERTS is glad the real action is back IT’S here. The big kick off. And thank goodness for that. Why?...
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Features
/ 13 years agoLAMBERT WAS A VERY MOVE S-MART FOR VILLA
JAMES LEYFIELD is predicting a welcome return to the days of O'Neill under the new boss at Villa Park Paul Lambert...
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Features
/ 13 years agoGIVE THE REFEREE A CHANCE
A.E. GREB says it’s time to blow the whistle on the blame culture surrounding football officials “REEFFF?!” wailed the prone forward...
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Features
/ 13 years agoFAIR PLAY IS NOT FAIR ENOUGH
MATTHEW BAZELL – author of Theatre of Silence: The Lost Soul of Football – believes UEFA’s cure-all ruling doesn’t go far...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoYOU CALLED IT WHAT EXACTLY?
MARTIN ROBERTS on a naming rights deal with a difference “WHERE the heck’s Parkhouse, mate?” It was an all-too-common cry...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoYOU CAN ALL TWITTER ON WITHOUT ME
For many, Twitter has become as much of a part of football as a dodgy pie and a fat bloke in...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWelcome to late tackle
TEAM GB’s predictable penalty shoot-out exit from the men’s football at the Olympic Games seemed to sneak under the radar as...
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Features
/ 13 years agoLONG BALL PUT US BACK 30 YEARS
With TERRY CURRAN’S autobiography about to hit the shelves, KEITH MENARY met the Yorkshire maverick to talk old managers, new managers,...
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Features
/ 13 years agoLIGHT FANTASTIC
Midweek matches under the lights are now the stuff of legend. But it wasn’t always the case. PAUL BROWN looks back at...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWIN, LOSE OR SNORE
Critics of Spain’s tika-taka style have branded it boring. For ALEX KEBLE that’s tantamount to blasphemy… SO here are the stats:...
