Features

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

NO ONE’S PLAYING POLITICS

RAMÒN BENÍTEZ remembers when footballers were more willing to espouse their, mainly, left-wing leanings FOOTBALL is … sorry, was a […]

JUST WALK AWAY?

SIMON CRAFT asks should players leave the pitch if they are subjected to racism? After Kevin Prince-Boateng and his AC […]

WALSH’S WORLD

KRISTIAN WALSH GOES BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE TV CREW AT MANSFIELD V LIVERPOOL TO SEE IF THE FA CUP […]

1962-63 THE BIG FREEZE

STEPHEN ROBERTS looks back at the worst winter British football has endured in recent history AS an ardent football spectator […]

WHAM BAM THANK YOU FLAM

HUGO GREENHALGH considers the career of one of his favourite players, Mathieu Flamini, and asks whether he left Arsenal too […]

WINDOW PAIN

ASHLEY GREB laments the circus surrounding the January transfer window OF all the months in the year, I really bloody […]

WINDOW GAIN

This year marked the tenth anniversary of the January transfer window – an innovation that takes a bit too much […]

JUST GET ON WITH IT!

Tunnel cameras, handshakes and theme tunes -PAUL CANTWELL has had enough of the pre-match palaver and is thankful for Sky […]

NOT SINGING ANY MORE?

NEIL SCOTT wonders why so few have cracked it when it comes to fusing togger and tunes into a successful […]

HESKEY REVISITED

JAMES DUTTON looks at one of the most-maligned of the old-style centre-forward and asks, was he THAT bad? HAVE you […]

STRIPPED BACK

Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent […]

TACKLING BIRTHDAYS

Rubbish football cards… they were, er, quite good, actually, says ASHLEY GREB, and he wonders why we can’t buy them any […]

IT’S BIN A LONG TIME

JON LIVESEY looks back at the career of legendary Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall and reviews his book, The Binman Chronicles. […]

POPPING MY FOOTBALL CHERRY

‘ORRIBLE IVES’ of Wigan Athletic fanzine The Mudhutter remembers the first time Springfield Park IT WAS around about 1973-74 that […]

THE MYTH OF CHRISTMAS

CHRIS DUNLAVY says being bottom at Yuletife is not necessarily a disaster YOU know what they say about being bottom […]

PRESS-ING MATTERS

DANIEL SMITH reckons there’s too much focus on the Premier League – and journalists are getting too close to their […]

PLAYING KETCHUP

LUKE CONSTABLE wonders if Fernando Torres will ever truly rediscover his goalscoring touch AS PART of Roman Abramovich’s increasingly esoteric […]