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Late Tackle
/ 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 agoWRITE FOR LATE TACKLE
We’re always on the look out for contributions for future issues of Late Tackle. If you fancy writing for the magazine...
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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 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 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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Late Tackle
/ 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 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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Late Tackle
/ 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 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 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 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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/ 13 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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/ 13 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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/ 13 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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Late Tackle
/ 13 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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/ 13 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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/ 13 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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/ 13 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...
