Stories By The Late Tackle Magazine Team
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Features
/ 13 years agoLIGHT FANTASTIC
Midweek matches under the lights are now the stuff of legend. But it wasn’t always the case. PAUL BROWN looks back at...
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/ 13 years agoWIN, LOSE OR SNORE
Critics of Spain’s tika-taka style have branded it boring. For ALEX KEBLE that’s tantamount to blasphemy… SO here are the stats:...
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/ 13 years agoSTURRIDGE GETS THE ABUSE FLOWING AGAIN
WALSH’S WORLD KRISTIAN WALSH LOOKS AT THE OLYMPIC FOOTBALL IF “Inspire a Generation” was the official motto of London’s Olympic Games,...
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/ 13 years agoPITCHING IN FOR FOOTBALL
The Stone Roses and the Euros made this a great summer for an older generation of footie fans who love music...
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/ 13 years agoTHE ITALIAN JOB
ALAN JOHNSON remembers a competition that allowed some of England’s lower league clubs to pit their wits against the fancy foreigners...
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/ 13 years agoSELDOM HAS A CAMERA BEEN SO CANDID
There’s been umpteen attempts at football documentaries but few have hit the mark like The Four Year Plan, directed by Mat...
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/ 13 years agoOUCH! NOW THAT WAS A SENDING-OFF!
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the red cards that carried not the slightest hint of rough justice IF you’re going to get...
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/ 13 years agoTEN OF THE BEST THAT HIT THE TARGET
Here’s our pick of the goals from Euros past to look up on YouTube THERE were some great goals at Euro...
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/ 13 years agoPRAISE FOR THE UNSUNG HEROES
In an age where it seems everyone is a footie expert, DECLAN OLLEY was encouraged to see some unknown names take...
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World
/ 13 years agoROY IS THE GHOST OF FOOTBALL PAST
Where did it all go wrong for Hodgson’s heroes? GARETH ROBERTS rakes over the ashes of England’s latest collapse at a...
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/ 13 years agoRANDOM…WITH PATRICK JOHN
MOST OBSCURE TRIVIA EVER Shinji Kagawa will be the 12th Manches-ter United player under Sir Alex Ferguson whose surname is at...
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/ 13 years agoGAG THE GAFFERS GUFF
PATRICK JOHN wants a little less conversation and a little more action on Saturday nights… Mike Phelan I’LL hold my hands...
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/ 13 years agoHOW I LEARNED TO LOVE RAT-BOY
STEP HEN TUDOUR admits his secret affection for a man he once detested – Gary Neville EVERY Monday evening, before my...
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/ 13 years agoBUNNY BOUNCES BACK TO EUROPE
ANTHONY BUNN on The Potters’ return to the Continent after a 37-year absence EASYJET AND RYANAIR, OR ANYONE WHO'LL TAKE US...
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/ 13 years agoWELCOME TO LATE TACKLE
For footie fans of a certain vintage, it’s easy to feel a little downtrodden. We throw the ‘beautiful game’ mantra around...
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/ 13 years agoTHE INSIDE SECRETS THAT MAKE BARCA GREAT
PAUL GRECH gets the low-down on the Barca youth production line that is the envy of the world THERE are few...
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/ 13 years agoCAMERA, ACTION! HAWK-EYE IN HAMPSHIRE
Video refs, goal-line technology…it’s a never-ending debate. But what about watching a match where it’s actually in place? A. E. GREB...
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/ 13 years agoVision of Udinese comes to Wat ford
CHRIS DUNLAVY THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST IT must be crap being a Watford fan. Your glory days were 20 years...
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Features
/ 13 years agoMAGIC OF THE CUP GOES MISSING AT WEMBLEY
Budweiser’s involvement with Non-League Wembley FC leaves a sour taste in the mouth for NEIL BELLIS WHEN drinks company Budweiser began...
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Features
/ 13 years agoGive us a break, for pity’s sake
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS SO here we are again, talking about winter in summer. As our chugging, red-faced footballers – those that...
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/ 13 years agoSO YOU THINK YOU’RE ‘ARD DO YOU? THINK ON
CHRIS DUNLAVY says you can forget Roy Keane and Chopper Harris when you want to find the true tough guys of...
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/ 13 years agoJUST NINETY MINUTES OF HEAVEN
It’s what they’re all aiming for – the Premier League. But imagine getting there and playing only ONCE on the big...
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/ 13 years agoRonaldo deserves to be a winner
WALSH'S WORLD KRISTIAN WALSH FEELS SOME SYMPATHY CRISTIANO RONALDO took one brief glance at Petr Cech prone on the floor for...
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/ 13 years agoTHIS COULD HAVE BEEN THE TEAM OF THE COUNTRY
CHRIS DUNLAVY says that Yugoslavia deserve their place alongside Brazil, Hungary, Holland and Spain ASKED to name a great international side,...
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/ 13 years agoBRASSED OFF!
LAWRENCE COHEN couldn’t give hoot about the trum pets and drums that follow England The England Band THEY lack wit...
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/ 13 years agoWHERE’S THE PASSION IN DEAR OLD ROY?
JAMES OWENS just can’t get excited about the new Three Lions boss WATCHING Ricky Tomlinson as the haphazard, heart-on-sleeve gaffer he...
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/ 13 years agoKEEPING THE SHIP AFLOAT
SIMON HUGHES shines light on an appeal to give a team formed in 1894 a bright future THE wooden hub of...
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/ 13 years agoRANDOM… WITH PATRICK JOHN
DID YOU KNOW As the European Championship approaches – and thoughts turn to the blessed Germans winning again – it...
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/ 13 years agoGREEN BY NAME GREEN BY NATURE
ALAN JOHNSON explains how banning bangers has been a recipe for success and made Forest Green hungry to serve more eco...
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/ 13 years agoWHEN FINISHING THIRD CAN MEAN RELEGATION
DUNLAVY DUNLAVY figures out that the Argentinian method of where teams finish in the league table is a number-crunching game SO,...
