Stories By The Late Tackle Magazine Team
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Features
/ 12 years agoCARRICK, GHOST OF SEASON,S PAST
STEPHEN TUDOR says Michael Carrick personifies what has gone wrong with English football ANDREA PIRLO bewitched the watching continent with a...
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Features
/ 12 years agoFOOTBALL’S ANSWER TO MONEYBALL
DECLAN OLLEY looks at Porto’s remarkable knack of winning trophies and beating the transfer system MICHAEL LEWIS’ Moneyball has been an...
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Late Tackle
/ 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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Features
/ 12 years agoBANANA SHOTS THUNDERBOLTS AND CURLERS
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the masters of the free-kick through the years, their techniques and their staggering strike rates WHAT makes...
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Features
/ 12 years agoSoccer AM THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE…
JAMIE WHITEHEAD offers some words of support for the much-maligned Soccer AM SKY. It’s the one word that divides opinion in...
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Features
/ 12 years agoSoccer AM MAKE IT STOP!
LUKE CONSTABLE reckons it’s time to blow the whistle on Sky’s Saturday morning cringeworthy lad-fest ALLOW me to confess: I will...
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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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Features
/ 12 years agoCRYING FOWL
Since chicken farmers Venky’s took control, it’s been a clucking mess at Ewood Park. But TIM ALDRED says there’s still time...
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Features
/ 12 years agoWHO,S BETTER? WHO,S BEST? WHO CARES?
PAUL WILKES reckons the continual clamour to separate Messi and Ronaldo is pointless Ronaldo FOR ONCE it seemed as though he...
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Late Tackle
/ 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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Features
/ 12 years agoGETTING SHIRTY ABOUT RACISM
STEPHEN TUDOR reckons it’s up to fans to keep the focus on the real issues in our game Rio warming up...
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Features
/ 12 years agoTHE BEST OF THE WORST DIVERS
Jurgen klinsmann THE original and still the best. Pelting down the right wing during the 1990 World Cup final , Germany...
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Features
/ 12 years agoDiving Bored
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS is sick of the outpouring of mock outrage every time a player takes a tumble WHAT...
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Late Tackle
/ 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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Features
/ 12 years agoCHEER UP LAWRO!
IF you’ve watched Match Of The Day, you’ve surely asked yourself the question: Why is Mark Lawrenson still on there? If...
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Europe
/ 12 years agoIN GOOD KOMPANY
STEVEN GREEN on the Belgian invasion – and how The Red Devils could soon be international dark horses ON transfer deadline...
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Features
/ 12 years agoIS BRENDAN GETTING RODGERED
GARETH ROBERTS on more baffling boardroom battles at Anfield IT WAS supposed to be the wind of change that Liverpool needed...
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/ 12 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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Features
/ 12 years agoIs it time to say goodbye to the League Cup?
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS INTERNATIONAL breaks just weeks into the new campaign make little sense. But, if you’re like me and put...
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Late Tackle
/ 12 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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Late Tackle
/ 12 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....
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Late Tackle
/ 12 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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Features
/ 12 years agoGIVE US JUSTICE FOR HEYSEL!
It’s a terrace shout too often aired just to score points but what are the facts of the matter? OLIVER KAY...
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Late Tackle
/ 12 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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/ 12 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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/ 12 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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Features
/ 12 years agoReasons to be thankful for Rafa
WALSH'S WORLD - Kristian walsh looks at the legacy of rafa benitez LIVERPOOL fans have a lot to thank Rafael Benítez for....
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Features
/ 12 years agoBOOZE, BIRDS AND A FIGHT EVERY WEEK
CHRIS DUNLAVY meets Roy McDonough, sent off 22 times in his career, after rejection cost him his chance of a top...
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Late Tackle
/ 12 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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Late Tackle
/ 12 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...
