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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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 12 years agoJUST WALK AWAY?
SIMON CRAFT asks should players leave the pitch if they are subjected to racism? After Kevin Prince-Boateng and his AC Milan...
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/ 12 years agoWALSH’S WORLD
KRISTIAN WALSH GOES BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE TV CREW AT MANSFIELD V LIVERPOOL TO SEE IF THE FA CUP STILL...
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/ 12 years ago1962-63 THE BIG FREEZE
STEPHEN ROBERTS looks back at the worst winter British football has endured in recent history AS an ardent football spectator and...
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/ 12 years agoYOUR TEAM’S CALLED WHAT EXACTLY?
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the more colourful – and fanciful – club names BACK in the day, there was...
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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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...
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/ 12 years agoPaying the price for tribalism
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS Supporters’ tunnel vision is just the ticket for greedy clubs FOOTBALL, as Jimmy Greaves said on more than one...
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/ 12 years agoWHAT’S THE REALITY OF FANTASY?
SIMON CRAFT worries that a game that was once a bit of fun is now becoming far too serious RUSHING home...
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/ 12 years agoTHE DAY ONE OF WORLD’S GREATEST TEAMS DIED
CHRIS DUNLAVY remembers the tragic events of May 4, 1949 when Torino’s team plane crashed IT was just before 5pm on...
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/ 12 years agoIT USED TO B E PAIRFECT
MARK GODFREY asks if two up top is gone for good ONCE upon a time, a key element to any successful...
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/ 12 years agoHESKEY REVISITED
JAMES DUTTON looks at one of the most-maligned of the old-style centre-forward and asks, was he THAT bad? HAVE you heard...
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/ 12 years agoSTRIPPED BACK
Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent times...
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/ 12 years agoTACKLING BIRTHDAYS
Rubbish football cards... they were, er, quite good, actually, says ASHLEY GREB, and he wonders why we can’t buy them any more...
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/ 12 years agoPOPPING MY FOOTBALL CHERRY
‘ORRIBLE IVES’ of Wigan Athletic fanzine The Mudhutter remembers the first time Springfield Park IT WAS around about 1973-74 that I...
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/ 12 years agoTHE MYTH OF CHRISTMAS
CHRIS DUNLAVY says being bottom at Yuletife is not necessarily a disaster YOU know what they say about being bottom at...
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/ 12 years agoPRESS-ING MATTERS
DANIEL SMITH reckons there’s too much focus on the Premier League – and journalists are getting too close to their subjects...
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/ 12 years agoPLAYING KETCHUP
LUKE CONSTABLE wonders if Fernando Torres will ever truly rediscover his goalscoring touch AS PART of Roman Abramovich’s increasingly esoteric recruitment...
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/ 12 years agoTHE WRITES AND WRONGS OF FOOTBALL FANZINES
They’ve been kicking around for decades, but what exactly is – and isn’t – a fanzine? WILLIAM ABBS tries to explain......
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/ 12 years agoBEWARE SNOW, FLOOODS AND TYRANTS
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the perils of the weather – and other less obvious influences on whether a match gets played...
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/ 12 years agoTHE MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE
ALISTAIR MCLAUCHLAN, a Scot living in Ecuador, wonders who’s got it best when it comes to watching football Atahualpa Stadium EVERY...
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/ 12 years agoBRITS, BRIAN, BIG BALLS AND BENFICA
STEVEN GREEN remembers when Portugal chopped Souey Graeme Souness at Benfica THERE are certain periods in every club’s history that are...
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/ 12 years agoTHE CUP DOESN’T MEAN F.A. TO ME’
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS says you can’t beat The FA Cup third-round draw I’d just watched a decent second-round tie on...
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Book Reviews
/ 12 years agoIT’S BIN A LONG TIME
JON LIVESEY looks back at the career of legendary Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall and reviews his book, The Binman Chronicles. ONLY...
