Features

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

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… […]

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 […]

MAKING HIS MARC

JOHN LYONS TALKS TO FORMER FOOTBALLER MARCUS BENT ABOUT HIS FRESH CHALLENGE… In the big time: Marcus Bent celebrates in […]

SPREADING THE MESSAGE…

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

BLACKPOOL’S ITALIAN JOB

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN THE SEASIDERS SHONE ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE… Crav-ing success: Overjoyed Blackpool skipper John Craven holds the […]

FRESH REASONS FOR HOPE

Whose Game Is It Anyway? Football, Life, Love & Loss, by Michael Calvin, published by Pitch Publishing, Price: £19.99 MICHAEL […]

GO FOR IT, GARETH

CHRIS DUNLAVY EXPLAINS WHY THE ENGLAND BOSS MUST RELEASE THE HANDBRAKE IF THE THREE LIONS ARE TO TRIUMPH IN THE […]

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 […]