Features

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

SINGING THE BLUES

CHRIS WRIGHT TAKES A LOOK BACK AT WHEN CHELSEA’S FORTUNES REALLY STARTED TO CHANGE… Showing off the FA Cup IT’S […]

JUDE’S JOURNEY

BIRMINGHAM CITY FAN KEITH DIXON TAKES A LOOK AT THE FACTORS BEHIND THE RAPID RISE OF FORMER BLUES STARLET JUDE […]

DON AND DUSTED

ERIK SAMUELSON TELLS CHRIS DUNLAVY ABOUT HIS BOOK CHARTING THE INCREDIBLE RISE OF AFC WIMBLEDON… We’ve Don it! AFC Wimbledon […]

AN IRREVERENT ESCAPADE

Is it Just Me or is Modern Football S**t?, by Jim Keoghan, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £12.99 IT’S always […]

ERIK’S EFFORT PAYS OFF

All Together Now, by Erik Samuelson, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £19.99 ALL Together Now is billed as ‘The Extraordinary […]

MAGIC MACCA

SAM TODD TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF PORTSMOUTH AND REP OF IRELAND STAR ALAN McLOUGHLIN ALAN McLoughlin’s […]

SPREADING THE MESSAGE…

Futsal – The Story of an Indoor Football Revolution, by Jamie Fahey, published by Melville House UK, Price: £9.99 ONE […]

DUGOUT DEMANDS

RICHARD SAYELL LOOKS AT THE FORTUNES OF STAR PLAYERS WHO HAVE STEPPED INTO MANAGEMENT… Derby Chelsea Valencia Monaco Montreal Derby […]

WE’RE NEARLY THERE!

CHRIS DUNLAVY SAYS CRITICISM OF ENGLAND BOSS GARETH SOUTHGATE’S CONSERVATIVE STYLE IS WIDE OF THE MARK – AND THE THREE […]

ALF’S BAPTISM OF FIRE

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN ENGLAND MADE AN EARLY ‘EUROS’ EXIT IN 1963 UNDER THEIR NEW MANAGER On the stretch: Jimmy […]

AN UNFORGETTABLE EUROS

ROBERT J WILSON PICKS OUT SOME OF HIS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONTINENTAL SHOWPIECE… THERE is no doubting that Euro 2020 […]

LEARNING LESSONS

SAM TODD REFLECTS ON CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN’S COLLAPSE (AND RECOVERY) AT EURO 2020 – AND HOW IT SHOULD BE TURNED INTO […]

BIG BEN CHIMES FOR CHILE

JOHN LYONS REPORTS ON THE EXPLOITS OF BLACKBURN ROVERS STRIKER BEN BRERETON IN SOUTH AMERICA… What a feeling! Ben Brereton […]

BRING IT ON!

AFTER THE GREAT EURO 2020 ADVENTURE JOHN LYONS TAKES A LOOK AHEAD TO THE NEW SEASON… Here we go: Chelsea […]

RHODES TO REDEMPTION

CAMERON POPE ANALYSES THE PROSPECTS OF ONCE-PROLIFIC STRIKER JORDAN RHODES RECAPTURING HIS BEST FORM ON HIS RETURN TO HUDDERSFIELD TOWN… […]

KEEPING IT REAL

SAM TODD SUGGESTS ENGLAND FANS SHOULDN’T GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP GLORY THIS SUMMER… WOULD it […]

WALES’ LOCAL HEROES

DAVID COLLINS HIGHLIGHTS THE GROWTH OF PLAYERS AT WELSH CLUBS GOING ON TO REPRESENT THEIR COUNTRY HAVING players from your […]

TERRY’S EURO ’96 WARM-UP

STUART STEELYARD RECALLS HOW TERRY VENABLES PLOTTED ENGLAND’S COURSE TOWARDS A MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS ON HOME TURF… AFTER Graham Taylor’s England […]

GAZZA’S GLORY

ROBERT J WILSON LOOKS BACK AT WHEN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND LAST CLASHED AT THE EUROS – A QUARTER OF A CENTURY […]

POSH PROVE THEIR CLASS

BILLY MULLEY REFLECTS ON PETERBOROUGH’S PROMOTION TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP-AND THEIR PROSPECTS NEXT TERM… What a feeling: Joe Ward celebrates with […]

CROATIAN SPURS

BARNABY ROSTANT RECALLS  WHEN THREE COMPATRIOTS PLAYED A STARRING ROLE  AT TOTTENHAM… Earning their Spurs: Vedran Corluka   Niko Kranjcar in […]