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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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Late Tackle
/ 12 years agoLITERATURE
KEITH MENARY is also looking to a summer read (and he’s got some recommendations, too). And here’s why. While Twitter, Instagram...
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/ 12 years agoThe Second Coming of Third THIRD LANARK
MARK GODFREY recalls a long-forgotten football club – and looks at plans for it to rise again Third Lanark vs Hearts...
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/ 12 years agoGOALDEN BROWN
PATRICK NORRIE says the former PM had a vision for club ownership that would have benefited the game HE 2010 General...
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/ 12 years agoWRITE FOR LATE TACKLE
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/ 12 years agoWRITE FOR LATE TACKLE
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/ 12 years agoThe Cape Crusaders
The performances of Cape Verde in the Africa Cup of Nations raised a few eyebrows, including those of DAN RAWLEY THE...
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/ 12 years agoENGLAND C GET RESOUNDING A FOR ACHIEVMENT
STUART HAMMONDS looks back over a decade of excellence for Paul Fairclough and his Non-League international team WHEN Stuart Pearce was...
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/ 12 years agoDO YOU LIKE THE BOOKS WOT I WROTE?
CHRIS DUNLAVY delves into the phenomenon of sporstmen trying their luck as authors CLEARLY, Frank Lampard had to mine the depths...
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/ 12 years agoMK DONS v AFC WIMBLEDON MORE THAN JUST A GAME
DECLAN OLLEY attended the emotional FA Cup grudge match between MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon and saw first-hand just how it...
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/ 12 years agoTHE FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S FORGOTTEN CLUBS
COLIN PERRY takes a trip down memory lane to recall a not-so-famous five SINCE the introduction of automatic promotion and relegation...
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/ 12 years agoWRITE FOR LATE TACKLE
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/ 12 years agoREMEMBERING CHARLTON’S GREAT DANE
NIGEL MANNERING recalls when the European Footballer of the Year joined the Second Division The January transfer window is in full...
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/ 12 years agoWRITE FOR LATE TACKLE
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/ 12 years agoGIVE ’EM THE BOOT!
Pink, orange, yellow, turquoise – there’s no colour of boot that footballers don’t wear these days. But remember when boots only...
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/ 12 years agoFROM NAZI TO HERO
COLIN PERRY details the amazing transformation of Bert Trautmann from hate figure to idol at Manchester City Leaving Wembley holding his...
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/ 12 years agoNEW BOSS? HE WON,T LAST 10 MINUTES
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the managers who were out the door before they’d had a chance to meet their new players...
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/ 12 years agoGIVE VENKY’S A CHANCE. REMEMBER NEWCASTLE
CHRIS DUNLAVY makes a case in defence of Blackburn’s owners MUGS don’t make millions. They may be sharp, wide and thoroughly...
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/ 12 years agoWrite for late tackle…
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/ 12 years agoPRICED OUT OF FOOTBALL
GARETH ROBERTS laments the depressing gentrification of modern football THE BBC’S Price of Football feature was as extensive and comprehensive as...
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/ 12 years agoKNOW YOUR RIGHTS AT THE MATCH
AMANDA JACKS, case worker for the Football Supporters' Federation, explains what to do if you have a brush with the law...
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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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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/ 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....