Stories By The Late Tackle Magazine Team
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/ 13 years agoIt’s still ref-fing hell
Football dynasties come and go but one opponent remains undefeated. Mark SanderSon assesses the task facing the Fa’s respect programme in...
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/ 13 years agoA cluster of cliches
ADAM HURREY of angleofpostandbar.blogspot.com runs a few choice football phrases up the flagpole to see who drops their trousers The animal...
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/ 13 years agoThe one-cap wonder
PATRICK JOHN on the player that epitomised a decade and was loved by fans of two very different clubs, if not...
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/ 13 years agoRANDOM…
with Patrick John DID YOU KNOW: Wycombe Wanderers’ mascot, Bodger, is based on a real person, former striker Tony ‘Bodger’ Horseman....
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/ 14 years agoWho loves Owen?
When Michael Owen scored THAT goal against Argentina in 1998, he had the world at his feet. Now, PETER SIMPSON says,...
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/ 14 years agoGoing down fighting
WALSH’S WORLD Kristian Walsh on football around the globe June 26, 2011: one of the darkest days in Argentinean football history...
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/ 14 years agoFootballing nirvana
GER MCCARTHY remembers an incredible night at Anfield when the team that had swept all before them in English football for...
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/ 14 years agoFriday I’m in love
He scored a goal even the referee applauded and inspired The Super Furry Animals’ single, The Man Don’t Give A F**k....
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/ 14 years agoMartin knows the score
JAMES WILLOUGHBY on an FA Cup giant-killing at Old Trafford that meant a lot to Leeds United fans – some more...
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/ 14 years agoThe ultimate traders
KIERON O’CONNOR of swissramble.blogspot.com takes a detailed look at the amazing success delivered by FC Porto with finances that many Championship...
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/ 14 years agoPower of Scotland
To many Scottish football has become a joke – a two-horse race to be sneered at; a parochial competition long past...
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Features
/ 14 years agoSavaging Robbie
RANTS Gareth Roberts WHAT’S the point in Robbie Savage? What’s he famous for? What’s he ever done remotely worthwhile? He curled...
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Non-League
/ 14 years agoCutting it fine
Groundsman, fundraiser, driver, cleaner...there’s more to life to managing a grassroots football team than meets the eye, as AIDAN TOWNSEND finds...
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/ 14 years agoTeenage kicks – the magic of Brazil ’82
NEIL SCOTT gets all nostalgic about the most loved underachievers of all-time THE thing about memories is they’re always there for...
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Features
/ 14 years agoThe mighty Quinn
Mick Quinn was an old-school footballer. He had a drink, a bet and chased women – a character anyone who’s grown...
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/ 14 years agoThe number’s up
Football’s big money, and so are statistics. Matthew Bretherton asks where the obsession came from – and how do we do...
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/ 14 years agoWelcome to the six-team town
Martin tarbucK, editor of Wigan athletic fanzine the Mudhutter, on the frustrations of growing up in a place where some locals...
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/ 14 years agoFooty Art
ABOUT THE ARTIST .. . Name: Dan Leydon From: Sligo, Ireland Supports: Liverpool He says: I have been designing as a...
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/ 14 years agoNot so super Mario?
SUHAIL SEEDAT wonders whether we are too quick to condemn modern day footballers, seeing them as overpaid spoilt brats rather than...
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/ 14 years agoWelcome to Late Tackle
SO what is Late Tackle? Well perhaps it’s easier to explain what Late Tackle is by explaining what it isn’t. It...
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/ 14 years agoReid it and weep
It must be great to get to know the manager of your team, right? MARTYN McFADDEN of Sunderland fanzine A Love...
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/ 14 years agoWhere’s the talking?
What better way to escape clique-ridden top-level football than a spot of Sunday League? Surely the grass-roots game can’t have been...
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EFL
/ 14 years agoNo signings to speak of but at least the car park’s been tarmaced
RICHARD WILLIAMS won’t be welcoming any new players to the Community Stadium as another season marooned in the middle of League...
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/ 14 years agoConte makes it to his Promised Land
PAUL GRECH takes a look at the new Juventus boss and what he must do to avoid the chop WILL I...
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/ 14 years agoCrisis, what crisis?
RORY SMITH, of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, on how Italian football is going on the attack RAVAGED by corruption, poisoned...
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/ 14 years agoLike father like son
A football team doesn’t have to be successful to forge an unbreakable family bond, something Millwall fan MERV PAYNE knows all...
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/ 14 years agoSame as it Ever was
Crisis time at Everton or the same as it ever was in recent times? The Guardian’s Merseyside football correspondent Andy HunTEr...
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/ 14 years agoBring back the tackle
JOHN NICHOLSON Football has changed. Sometimes we don’t realise just how much it has changed. We get used to the incremental...
