Features

This is where you will find all of Late Tackle’s original Features which are full of expertise, analysis and opinion.

WHAT FANS DEMAND…

STEVE CUMBER says that football supporters take a different attitude at the match than they do anywhere else… For many […]

THE MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

ALLY McKENZIE explains how football takes over your life, giving you great highs and painful lows… IT HAS recently struck […]

FOOTBALL’S ROOM 101

KEVIN HALLS comes clean on his football frustrations… IENJOY watching Room 101 on television. The programme, hosted by comic and wellknown […]

FIGHTING FOR FAIR PRICES

JONATHAN COWLEY says Liverpool supporters may have won a battle, but fans in general are still miles away from winning […]

CELEBRITY FANS

KEVIN HALLS takes a look at the increasing number of musicians, actors and comedians getting behind teams… WHEN I was […]

Academy Blues

By Jacob Graham Football fans often moan nowadays that they don’t see many home-grown players in their team. There are […]

It’s Still Our Game

By Alex Leonard Two years after England won the World Cup, sports journalist Arthur Hopcraft published a book entitled The […]

Purchase Power

Spend five minutes in the company of Chesterfield’s strength and conditioning coach, Mal Purchase, and you are left with no […]

A Rebel With a Cause

By Ian Townsend In mid-January a young man from the south coast appeared on Channel 4 show ‘The Undateables’ and […]

The Manageresses

By Neil Cotton In Clermont-Ferrand, capital of the mountainous Auvergne region of France, football has always been a poor second […]

Sharpe Progress

By Ian Aspinall When Dave Whelan handed over the chairmanship of Wigan Athletic to his 23-year-old grandson David Sharpe, many […]

If Kane Goes, I Go

By David Emery I have been a Spurs fan since Danny Blanchflower told me it was The Glory Game, and […]

MLS – Two Decades On

By Danny Rust  The 2015 Major League Soccer season ended in, arguably, the best way possible – with a franchise […]

Battle of Britain

By Danny Rust  Before the Euro 2016 draw was made in Paris last month, Wales manager Chris Coleman made it […]