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Book Reviews
/ 12 years agoBOOK UP YOUR SUMMER
RAMON BENITEZ tackles football reads – and recommends five of the best for the beach this close season AFTER Wayne Rooney...
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Features
/ 12 years agoYOU GOT CLEARANCE CLARENCE
IAIN PEARCE watches on as Clarence Seedorf adapts to life in Brazil WHEN Clarence Seedorf made his unexpected move from AC...
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Features
/ 12 years agoYES, FERGIE WAS GREAT, BUT…
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the true legacy of Britain’s most outstanding football manager HOW good was Alex Ferguson? On these shores,...
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Features
/ 12 years agoLa Liga Round Up: Three horse race for the title continues
Barcelona, Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid all picked up narrow victories to keep the race for the La Liga title firmly poised with...
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Features
/ 12 years agoSICK OF THE SPIN
KEITH MENARY says the incessant turning of the managerial merry-go-round is another turn off about the modern game THIS season has been...
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Features
/ 12 years agoFOOTBALL ON FILM
RAMON BENITEZ looks at how the beautiful game has been depicted on the big screen – with varying degrees of success...
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Features
/ 12 years agoSPOTLAND THE FORWARDS FACTORY
JOHNNY GREANEY on why Rochdale has been a breeding ground for goal-getters SPOTLAND Stadium, Rochdale, has always been a little short...
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Features
/ 12 years agoFEAR OF THE PROMISED
ASHLEY GREBB is not entirely sure he wants his team to win promotion to the Premier League... OUTSIDE, the icy gusts...
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Features
/ 12 years agoJOHNNY B BAD
The words might change, but the chant stays the same. JAMES DUTTON bemoans the terrace chant that just won’t go away...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE ROAD TO WIGAN CHEER
LUKE CONSTABLE says Roberto Martinez has accepted where Wigan are as a club – and so should you because they’re the...
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Features
/ 12 years agoGARETH ROBERTS RANTS
Why is everyone smartin, over Martin? GARETH ROBERTS takes a closer look at the sacking of O’Neill EVERYONE was quick...
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Features
/ 12 years agoCUT IN WAGES WOULD BE JUST THE TICKET
Players’ salaries have driven up prices in football and TONY BARRETT says it’s time footballers considered supporters’ plight SOMEWHERE this weekend,...
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Features
/ 12 years agoMOACYR BARBOSA
A MISTAKE THAT SHOCKED A NATION SAM HUGHES looks back on the vitriol poured on Brazil’s goalkeeper for the ‘error’ that...
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Features
/ 12 years agoGARY LINEKER HE’S MORE THAN CHIPS AND QUIPS
ADAM MICHIE says the Match of the Day host deserves to be remembered for more than advertising crisps IN OCTOBER 1991...
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Features
/ 12 years agoEURO DRAW IS JUST A EURO BORE
CHRIS DUNLAVY explains how UEFA can put some excitement back into their Champions League THE soaring strings, the crystalline voices, the...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE MICKEY MOUSE CUPS
NEIL COTTON examines the knock-out competitions that football discarded Jaap Stam and Romario clash in the Intercontinental Cup in 1999 Wise...
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Features
/ 12 years agoBLUE MOON I SAW YOU STANDING ALONE
GARETH ROBERTS suggests the behaviour of Roberto Mancini shows all is not well on the blue side of Manchester THERE’S something...
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Features
/ 12 years agoMATCH MEMORIES… KEEGAN COMES TO TOON
MARK GODFREY remembers King Kev's bow for the Magpies against QPR in August, 1982. IN the early 1980s there was no...
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Features
/ 12 years agoFOOTBALL FANS DON , T DO THINGS BY HALVES
MERV PAYNE laments a fashion disaster that is creeping its way to a terrace near you WHEN it comes to terrace...
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Features
/ 12 years agoNO ONE’S PLAYING POLITICS
RAMÒN BENÍTEZ remembers when footballers were more willing to espouse their, mainly, left-wing leanings FOOTBALL is … sorry, was a working...
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Features
/ 12 years agoARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? THEN WE’LL BEGIN…
The new fad for missing games after taking the reins at a club is really grinding the gears of PAUL CANTWELL...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTELLY ACHE
PAUL BROWN has an Andy Townsend-shaped problem with footie commentary on ITV Andy Townsend ANDY Townsend has an unmatched ability to...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHEY JUST DON’T GET IT
One song sung at Old Trafford summed up all that was wrong with Manchester United for FC United of Manchester supporter...
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Features
/ 12 years agoPAUL MERSON… MAD PROPHET OF THE AIRWAVES
When a pun-peddling player-turned-pundit bins the banter to say something is wrong with football, it’s time to listen, writes LUKE CONSTABLE...
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Features
/ 12 years agoFOLLOW THE LEADERS
KEITH MENARY bemoans the lack of chest-pumping skippers in modern-day football – and looks back at six of the best from...
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Features
/ 12 years agoWHAM BAM THANK YOU FLAM
HUGO GREENHALGH considers the career of one of his favourite players, Mathieu Flamini, and asks whether he left Arsenal too soon....
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Features
/ 12 years agoBARGAIN OR BOMB? TRANSFER TRAUMAS
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the most expensive failures..and some of the greatest cut-price buys Nicolas Anelka AH, the transfer...
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Features
/ 12 years agoWINDOW PAIN
ASHLEY GREB laments the circus surrounding the January transfer window OF all the months in the year, I really bloody hate...
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Features
/ 12 years agoWINDOW GAIN
This year marked the tenth anniversary of the January transfer window – an innovation that takes a bit too much stick...
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Features
/ 12 years agoRUMOURS OF FOOTBALL’S DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED
A great year for British sport led to a lot of finger wagging at football, but CHRIS EVANS says its halo...