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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoLOVE AFFAIR WITH AN OLD LADY
DAVID HASTINGS on Alessandro Del Piero and Juventus – one of football’s most enduring relationships ON the 25th March 2012, Alessandro...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoGOING SOFT? FOOTBALL IS FEROCIOUS THESE DAYS
PAUL WILLS explodes the myth that the game’s lost its physicality AS MUCH as I'd have liked to get physical with...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoITAL DO NICELY AND ALL FOR A TON
KRIS GRIFFIN does Serie A on a shoestring Stadio Olimpico Toto Schillaci WALKING through the urban sprawl of the Olympic Village...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoIS MESSI BETTER THAN PELE AND WHO CARES?
NEIL SCOTT is sick of the scramble to quantify everything in football Diego Maradona,Lionel Messi,Pele Lionel Messie slaloms through yet another...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoBUSTED CLUBS AND BROKEN DREAMS
CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some famous ‘projects’ tha t turned from wonder into dust EVERY division has got one – a club...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWHY DEUTSCHLAND CAN BE ÜBER ALLES ONCE AGAIN
SCOTT TERRIO is predicting more highs for Low Mesut Ozil goes round Austria goalkeeper Christian Gratzei to score for Germany FORGET Spain,...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoFROM 12 QUID A WEEK TO 240,000… HOW IT ALL BEGAN
MIKE MILES meanders through a mind-boggling maze of money madness ON my office wall is a two-page spread from the Picture...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWELCOME TO LATE TACKLE
So we’re back. A bit later than planned, but better late than never and all that. If you’ve read Late Tackle...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoWHEN THEY ALL CRIED FOUL AND LOVES IT!
PETER BATEMAN gets all dewy-eyed over a short-lived footie mag from the 70s OSTALGIA Chelsea’s Ron Harris was king of the...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoSTAND FOR THE TERRAGE
ANDREW CHERRIE wonders why a safe solution can’t be found for the serial standers at football TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND people stand...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoThey used to Pong, now they’re potent
PAUL BROWN remembers the humble beginnings of the console togger EACH new instalment of FIFA and Pro Evo, EA Sports’ and...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT, IN THE DUGOUT IS SIMPLY EXHAUSTING
TONY MOGAN reveals his guilty secret It’s 3:37 am. I’ve been sat in this dark room, hunched over my laptop, eyes...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoRELEGATION… THE MOST FEARED WORD IN THE FOOTBALL DICTIONARY
MARTIN ‘Jimmy’ TARBUCK from Wigan fanzine The Mudhutter is dreading the drop. To prepare himself for the worst, he spoke to...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoIT CAN MEAN LIFE OR DEATH
CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some illustrious, and fatal, relegations River Plate players in 2011 TOO Good to go down? Tell that to...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoRANDOM…
WITH PATRICK JOHN DID YOU KNOW While the rest of this sea-faring nation marked the centenary of the sinking of...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoHODDLE, WADDLE AND OTHER FOOTBALLING WARBLERS
DAVID STANDEN reckons footballers should learn from past mistakes and leave the crooning to the professionals AT the turn of 2012,...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoDOGGONE IT! MAATTY WANTS HIS PET BACK
MATT BADCOCK tells the sad tale of a player separated from the pet he’s devoted to Blairy’s Dog Frank takes a...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoYES, TEARS FOR SOUVENIRS BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE…
PATRICK JOHN defends a World Cup that’s remembered for all the wrong reasons IT was widely derided as the worst World...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoTHE GROWING-UP MOMENT YOU REALISE THAT TACTICS AREN’T MINTS
NICK YOUNG on how England’s finally smelling the coffee when it comes to tactics Rory Delap ONE of the great things...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoCHINA GIANT IS WAKING AND FLEXING IT’S FOOTBALLING MUSCLES
ANDREW CRAWFORD on why football in China is finally on the up Nicolas Anelka meets his new fans THE Chinese Super...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoCruyff ’s funny turn
LIAM MILNER on the trials and tribulations of one of Europe’s biggest clubs that has seen some of its greatest names...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoStory of the Blues
MICK RATHBONE spent 35 years as a player and physio at Birmingham, Blackburn and Everton. This extract from ‘The Smell Of...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoGoodbye Ceefax
Blocky, slow, clumpy but a much-loved source of vital information. MIKE MARTIN mourns the passing of analogue Ceefax to the big...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoCome on Pool City!
PAUL BROWN with the tale of the league “everyone was talking about” in 1978 — but only for 15 weeks Forget...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoIn praise of the gaffer
OLLY RICKETTS argues that even today, success requires more than just money As Roger Domeneghetti argued in his excellent piece on...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoThe anatomy of a transfer saga
ADAM HURREY of angleofpostandbar.blogspot.com on how players, agents, pundits and the media come together to produce one of the more tedious...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoThe ultimate academy
JAMES HERD can’t understand why the big clubs spend so little time and effort scouting players in non-league football Roy Essandoh,...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoThe fantastic four
PATRICK JOHN looks past the flashy Dutch masters who took all the headlines at the San Siro 20 years ago and...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoRANDOM…
with Patrick John DID YOU KNOW: On Christmas Day 1935, Oldham beat Tranmere 4-1 in the old Third Division North. Big...
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Late Tackle
/ 13 years agoInside ‘Franchise FC’
MARK SANDERSON wonders if there’s more to MK Dons than the ‘franchise’ by going to the core of the club, the...
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