Stories By The Late Tackle Magazine Team
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Features
/ 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 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 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 agoWRITE FOR LATE TACKLE
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/ 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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Retro
/ 12 years agoWHEN SLIM JIM WAS ENGLAND’S BIGGEST SCOURGE
DAVID DOCHERTY looks at the glorious, if fleeting, career of Scotland in side forward Jim Baxter Pressing the self-destruct button has...
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/ 12 years agoNO ONE’S PLAYING POLITICS
RAMÒN BENÍTEZ remembers when footballers were more willing to espouse their, mainly, left-wing leanings FOOTBALL is … sorry, was a working...
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/ 12 years agoFOOTBALL FANS DON , T DO THINGS BY HALVES
MERV PAYNE laments a fashion disaster that is creeping its way to a terrace near you WHEN it comes to terrace...
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/ 12 years agoMATCH MEMORIES… KEEGAN COMES TO TOON
MARK GODFREY remembers King Kev's bow for the Magpies against QPR in August, 1982. IN the early 1980s there was no...
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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 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 agoBLUE MOON I SAW YOU STANDING ALONE
GARETH ROBERTS suggests the behaviour of Roberto Mancini shows all is not well on the blue side of Manchester THERE’S something...
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/ 12 years agoTHE MICKEY MOUSE CUPS
NEIL COTTON examines the knock-out competitions that football discarded Jaap Stam and Romario clash in the Intercontinental Cup in 1999 Wise...
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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 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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Features
/ 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
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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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/ 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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/ 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...
