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Late Tackle
/ 6 years agoAJAX’S GLORY YEARS
DUTCH MASTERS DAVID DOCHERTY RECALLS WHEN THE DUTCH CLUB’S ‘TOTAL FOOTBALL’ RULED EUROPE Party time: Ajax celebrate in 1973 THE recent...
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/ 6 years agoFRANCE ’98 SCOTLAND’S LAST STAND
IN THE SPOTLIGHT ROSS KILVINGTON RECALLS WATCHING THE SCOTS ON THE BIG STAGE AS A YOUNG BOY Under pressure: Scotland’s Darren...
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/ 6 years agoTHE JOURNEY
TRAVELLING IN HOPE JACK LLOYD TELLS US ABOUT GOING TO WATCH HIS FAVOURITE TEAM ICLOSE the door behind me, take half-a-dozen...
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/ 6 years agoCITY PLAYMAKER
IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS A NEW FILM ABOUT BERT TRAUTMANN. THE KEEPER. DOES THE ROUNDS. MIKE FENTON RELATES HOW AN OLD...
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/ 6 years agoPEPPERMINT SURPRISE
BESIDE THE SEASIDE JOHN LYONS WATCHES NEWQUAY AFC IN PRE-SEASON ACTION AND TALKS TO MANAGER TONY MACKELLAR… Thirsty work: Newquay players...
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/ 6 years agoGETTING TO GRIPS WITH GLOBAL GAME
Masters of Modern Soccer – How the World’s Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game, by Grant Wahl, published by Three Rivers Press,...
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/ 6 years agoYOU CAN’T BEAT THE REAL THING
NIGHT OF MAGIC IN GLASGOW KEVIN HALLS CASTS AN EYE BACK AT REAL MADRID’S STUNNING DEMOLITION OF EINTRACHT FRANKFURT IN THE...
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/ 6 years agoDIEGO’S CRAZY DAYS
TWO SIDES TO MARADONA JOHN LYONS GIVES HIS VERDICT ON A FILM ABOUT ONE OF FOOTBALL’S GREATS IN RECENT years Lionel...
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/ 6 years agoKOSOVO MAKE THEIR MARK
THE WORLD’S NEW BOYS RUAIRI WARD EXAMINES HOW A NEW TEAM ON THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT ARE MAKING THEIR PRESENCE FELT Shrewd:...
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/ 6 years agoBLACKPOOLBURYAND THENEEDFORREFORM
DAN WHELAN TALKS TO BLACKPOOL SUPPORTERS’ TRUSTCHAIR CHRISTINESEDDON ABOUTWHATFOOTBALL MUSTDONEXT… FOOTBALL REVOLUTION Glad to be back: Blackpool fans at the game...
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/ 6 years agoWELCOMETO LATETACKLE
AFTER a longer than anticipated summer break (please accept our apololgies), it’s good to be back. The new campaign is already...
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/ 6 years agoTHANKS FORTHE MEMORIES, EDEN
ROBERT J WILSON SAYS THE ENGLISH GAME IS POORER WITHOUT THE TALENTS OF THE MERCURIAL BELGIAN FAREWELL TO A BLUE ICON...
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/ 6 years agoMEDICAL STAFF’S BIG-TIME TREATMENT
DOCTORS IN TROUBLE VASTLY-EXPERIENCED NON-LEAGUE PHYSIOTHERAPIST GAVIN BLACKWELL LOOKS BACK AT WHEN HIS COUNTERPARTS HAVE BEEN IN THE SPOTLIGHT Trouble ahead:...
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/ 6 years agoFIGHTING TO EARN THEIR STRIPES
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE CANADIAN DYLAN KRAIN TAKES A LOOK AT HOW FOOTBALL, OR SOCCER, IS BATTLING TO MAKE A MARK IN NORTH...
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/ 6 years agoFED-UP FANS… TRY NON-LEAGUE
ROB BRADLEY SAYS IT CAN BE MORE REWARDING TO BE A SUPPORTER LOWER DOWN THE FOOTBALL LADDER Happy: Glossop North End...
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/ 6 years agoBRAZIL’S RONALDO COULD HAVE BEEN A GER
MICHAEL FERGUSON LOOKS BACK AT AN EXTRAORDINARY TRANSFER TALE Transfer target: The Brazilian Ronaldo playing for Inter Milan Inset: Marco Negri...
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/ 6 years agoDYNAMIC DYNAMO
BEHIND THE CURTAIN STEPHEN BRANDT LOOKS BACK AT A UKRAINE CLUB’S GLORY DAYS Champions: Kiev win the European Cup Winners’ Cup...
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/ 6 years agoFERGIE, THE PLAYER
DAVID DOCHERTYTAKESALOOKBACKATTHELESSER KNOWNPARTOFSIRALEXFERGUSON’SFOOTBALLCAREER FERGUSON ON THE FIELD IT’S hard to believe that it’s now six years since Sir Alex Ferguson hung...
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/ 6 years agoNEW BRIGHTON’S DOUBLE DISMAY
PROUD CLUBS THAT DIED DAVID DOCHERTY LOOKS BACK AT HOW HIGH FOOTBALL LEAGUE HOPES FADED AND DIED AT A MERSEYSIDE SEASIDE...
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/ 6 years agoTHE BEEB’S WOMEN’S FOOTBALL OWN GOAL
JOHN WRAGG SAYS THE BBC WOULD BE DOING THE WOMEN’S GAME A FAVOUR IF THEY TONED DOWN THE HYPE Var-d luck...
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/ 6 years agoCRUYFFTURNS TOSHREDDED WHEAT…
STUART BOL TON RECALLS WHEN HE WAS HOOKED BY AN ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN INVOLVING THE DUTCH MASTER THE FOOD FOR SUPERSTARS FOR...
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/ 6 years agoCOPING WITHOUT YOUR FOOTBALL FIX
VASTLY EXPERIENCED NON-LEAGUE PHYSIO GAVIN BLACKWELL TAKES A LOOK AT THAT STRANGE TIME BETWEEN CAMPAIGNS CLOSE SEASON FRUSTRATION SO YOU’VE coached,...
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/ 6 years agoTHE STRUGGLES OF SAN MARINO
MINNOWS UNDER FIRE IAN MCFARLANE EXAMINES THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S SMALLEST COUNTRIES Duel: Davide Gualtieri up against...
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/ 6 years agoBUZZING BRAZIL CAST THEIR DEMONS ASIDE
IAN MCFARLANE TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THIS SUMMER’S COPA AMERICA SAMBA MAGIC IS BACK AAFTER being hammered 7-1 by Germany...
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Book Reviews
/ 6 years agoTHERE ARE A TON OF STORIES IN THIS LEEDS BOOK
100 Years of Leeds United, by Daniel Chapman, published by Icon Books, Price: £20 IF YOU wanted to write a book...
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Late Tackle
/ 6 years agoENGLAND’S GOAL BONANZA
COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN THE THREE LIONS ENJOYED A PURPLE PATCH ALMOST 60 YEARS AGO Hammer of the Scots: Jimmy Greaves...
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/ 6 years agoPETE KNOWS IT’S A FUNNY OLD GAME…
How to be a Footballer, by Peter Crouch with Tom Fordyce, published by Ebury Press, £8.99 (papeback edition). ON THE front...
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/ 6 years agoGOOD NEIGHBOURS
BIRMINGHAM CITY FAN KEITH DIXON EXAMINES COVENTRY’S DECISION TO GROUND-SHARE WITH THE BLUES THIS SEASON GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT SO THERE we...
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/ 6 years agoIT’S LAUGHS AND TEARS ON DAVE’S EPIC JOURNEY…
The Long, Long Road to Wembley, by Dave Roberts, published by Unbound, Price: £9.99 Big day out: Bromley fans at Wembley...
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/ 6 years agoTHE MAGIC OF SPEEDO
HOMAGE TO MY HERO KEVIN HALLS RECALLS WHEN STRIKER DAVID SPEEDIE CAPTURED THE HEARTS OF SKY BLUES FANS Pointing the way:...
