Late Tackle

Late Tackle provides original features, book reviews, fans view content, guest blogs, retro articles and much more.

PAOLO’S PERFECT DAY

ROBERT J WILSON RECALLS WHEN PAOLO ROSSI REDISCOVERED HIS GOAL-DEN TOUCH AND BROKE BRAZILIAN HEARTS… THE beauty of football is that […]

PLAYER POWER

THOMAS BLOW SALUTES THE FOOTBALLERS TRYING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE… WHEN the Premier League resumed in June with players taking […]

THE MAKING OF SIR MATT

ROBERT J WILSON LOOKS BACK AT THE LEGENDARY SIR MATT BUSBY’S EARLY YEARS IN MANAGEMENT WITH MANCHESTER UNITED Ready for […]

PEP’S BIG TEST

AFTER LOSING SEVERAL KEY PLAYERS, THOMAS BLOW WONDERS WHETHER PEP GUARDIOLA CAN SUCCESSFULLY REBUILD HIS MANCHESTER CITY TEAM… Staying put: […]

BLUES IN SAFE HANDS

BIRMINGHAM CITY FAN KEITH DIXON TAKES A LOOK AT THE ROLLERCOASTER JOURNEY OF KEEPER NEIL ETHERIDGE…BIRMINGHAM CITY FAN KEITH DIXON […]

TON-UPBILLY

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN THE LEGENDARY BILLY WRIGHT EARNED HIS 100TH CAP FOR ENGLAND… Fitting finale: Billy Wright is chaired […]

VAR’S DRIVING ME CRAZY

NEVILLE SPALDING GIVES US HIS TAKE ON AN ISSUE THAT JUST WON’T GO AWAY…. Ouch: Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk is […]

GINOLA’S AGONY

JAMES M GOWLAND RECALLS WHEN FRANCE BLEW THEIR CHANCE TO QUALIFY FOR THE 1994 WORLD CUP FINALS IN ASTONISHING STYLE… […]

LOWE AIMING HIGH

PLYMOUTH ARGYLE BOSS RYAN LOWE TELLS JOHN LYONS ABOUT HIS MANAGERIAL AMBITIONS,,, HE DIDN’T reach the top as a player, […]

MEMORY LANE

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CHASING THE ALPHABET

MICK BARNETT TELLS US ABOUT HIS UNUSUAL A-Z OF FOOTBALL A CHIEVEMENT… SO, HOW did I find myself at the […]

KEVIN’S ENJOYABLE STROLL

Who Are Ya? 92 football clubs -and why you shouldn’t support them, by Kevin Day, published by Bloomsbury, Price: £14.99. […]

THEY’VE DON IT

JOHN LYONS WITNESSES AFC WIMBLEDON’S RETURN TO THEIR SPIRITUAL HOME The way it was: The old Plough Lane in 1989 […]

MOLESLEY DIGS DEEP

SOUTHEND UNITED ROOKIE MANAGER MARK MOLESLEY TELLS JOHN LYONS ABOUT HIS PLANS TO TURN STRUGGLING SOUTHEND’S FORTUNES AROUND PROPPING up the […]

GRAB!YOUR SECOND!CHANCE

MATT BADCOCK TALKS TO RADCLIFFE MANAGER LEE FOWLER AND OWNER MARCUS MCCABE ABOUT THEIR DESIRE TO HELP YOUNG PLAYERS CAST […]

KANE THE CREATOR

LUKE PHELPS SAYS THE TOTTENHAM STRIKER HAS ADDED ANOTHER STRING TO HIS BOW…   FORGET the talk about being England’s […]

FIVE ALIVE

JOHN LYONS LOOKS AT THE IMPACT OF FIVE SUBSTITUTES NOW BEING ALLOWED IN THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE… ONE of the most […]

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OBSESSION

AUTHOR JOHN SMITH GIVES US A GLIMPSE INTO HIS ONGOING LOVE AFFAIR WITH FOOTBALL’S HIT-AND-MISS BOOKS… EVERY football fan knows […]

WELCOME TO LATE TACKLE

AS WE went to press, it was difficult to avoid being bombarded by headlines and stories about ‘Project Big Picture’. […]

MEETING THE STARS

RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME COVENTRY CITY FANATIC KEVIN HALLS TELLS US ABOUT HIS UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS WITH HIS FOOTBALL HEROES… IHAVE […]

MY NOTTS LOVE AFFAIR

A FAN’S STORY IAN KIRKE REFLECTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF HIS FAVOURITE FOOTBALL SIDE IN HIS LIFE… IN MAKING the […]