Features

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

BADGES OF DISHONOUR

WALSH’S WORLD – KRISTIAN WALSH REGRETS A FOOTBALL REVOLUTION THE ever-growing movement against modern football is a commendable one. Supporters are […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Diving Bored

GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS is sick of the outpouring of mock outrage every time a player takes a tumble […]

CRYING FOWL

Since chicken farmers Venky’s took control, it’s been a clucking mess at Ewood Park. But TIM ALDRED says there’s still […]

Soccer 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 […]

SCHTOP, SCHTEVE!

THIS COUNTRY, WE, RE NOT READY YET! KEITH MENARY wasn’t pleased to see the ‘wally with the brolly’ back on […]

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THUMB THING WE RELIED ON

CEEFAX 302-SATURDAY 3PM Ceefax – the staple source of information for many a football fan’s thumb – has broadcast its […]