RAUL MEIRELES – ONE OF A KIND

JOE HARVEY TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE COLOURFUL CAREER OF THE FORMER LIVERPOOL AND CHELSEA MIDFIELDER Hitting the heights: Raul Meireles...

DISASTROUS DERBY

KEVIN HALLS LOOKS BACK AT A SEASON THE RAMS WOULD RATHER FORGET... Floored: The Rams are devastated by Steven Gerrard’s last-gasp...

FEELING BLUE

BIRMINGHAM CITY FANATIC KEITH DIXON RECALLS WHEN HIS FAVOURITES LAST FEATURED IN AN FA CUP FINAL... What a hero: Manchester City’s...

GOOD BUT NOT BETTER

MICHAEL RENOUF CONSIDERS THE PROS AND CONS OF THE END-OF-SEASON TOURNAMENT APPROACH!TO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND EUROPA LEAGUE... Jubilant: Sevilla’s Fernando...

DELE’S DECLINE

ROBERT J WILSON EXAMINES WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE TOTTENHAM AND ENGLAND MAN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS... On the...

DAVID PLATT – ENGLAND HERO

STUART STEELYARD LOOKS BACK AT THE INCREDIBLE CAREER OF THE GOALSCORING MIDFIELDER... Defining moment: David Platt celebrates his last-gasp winner for...

TIME’S UP FOR TINDALL

BARNABY ROSTANT REPORTS ON A DISAPPOINTING END TO JASON TINDALL’S LONG STINT AT BOURNEMOUTH... AFTER five consecutive seasons in arguably the...

SURPRISES SUCCESS

THOMAS HEATH SAYS THE NATIONS LEAGUE HAS BEEN AN UNEXPECTED TRIUMPH... THERE was an audible groan let out by most of...

KENILWORTH ROAD – ONE OF A DYING BREED

MAX NYREN RECALLS A TRIP TO WATCH HIS FAVOURITES HULL CITY TAKE ON LUTON TOWN - AND BEING BOWLED OVER BY A...

REMEMBERING TIM’S TONES

SAM TODD LOOKS BACK AT THE CAREER OF TIM GUDGIN, THE MAN WHO ADDED A TOUCH OF CLASS TO THE CLASSIFIED FOOTBALL...

WELCOME!TO LATE TACKLE

John Lyons, editor AS I pen these notes, West Ham are in fourth place in the Premier League – no, I...

ANDY CARROLL ON THE RAMPAGE

MICHAEL!LEE RECALLS WHEN AN INJURY-PRONE OLD-FASHIONED STRIKER GAVE THE ARSENAL DEFENCE A MAULING... A COMMON trope in British sitcoms is the evocation...

BIG BEN CHIMES

BILLY MULLEY TALKS TO WATFORD DEFENDER BEN WILMOT ABOUT HIS RAPID RISE-AND HOW IT WAS AIDED BY A SPELL INITALY Making...

MARKETING MAGIC

HOW LEICESTER CITY OUTFOXED THEIR RIVALS OFF THE PITCH TO BOOST THEIR PROSPECTS ON IT... BEFORE the world of digital commercialisation...

CHURCHY THE KITMAN

ROB!BRADLEY EXPLAINS WHY LINCOLN UNITED WOULDN’T BE THE SAME WITHOUT THEIR POPULAR STALWART Bright spark: Steve Churcher shows off the immaculate...

THE HUD – SKY BLUE LEGEND

KEVIN HALLS EXPLAINS WHY STRIKER GEORGE HUDSON IS HIS ALL-TIME COVENTRY CITY HERO EVERY football club has their legends, players idolised...

ROONEY’S RAMS REVIVAL

LUKE PHELPS LOOKS AT HOW WAYNE ROONEY IS SETTLING INTO MANAGERIAL LIFE AT DERBY COUNTY IT ONLY seems like yesterday that...

CORE VALUES

ROB BRADLEY ON THE CRUCIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A CLUB AND THEIR SUPPORTERS... AN EXPERIENCED pro at a club might view a...

BLUNT BLADES

LUKE BIRCH EXAMINES WHAT’S GONE WRONG AT SHEFFIELD UNITED... FIVE points from their opening 18 games this season saw Sheffield United...

A STEWARD’S VIEW

BEN ROBINSON GIVES US A WARTS-AND-ALL EXPLANATION OF ONE OF PFOOTBALL’S UNSUNG ROLES... IT’S often asked of footballers if they can...

GLOVE STORY

BEN ROBINSON EXAMINES THE IMPACT OF LEEDS UNITED’S YOUNG GOALKEEPER Full stretch: Leeds keeper Illan Meslier saves against Everton YOU’D be...

THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF DIEGO MARADONA

ROBERT J WILSON TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE ARGENTINIAN LEGEND’S INCREDIBLE LIFE... On top of the world: Celebrating winning the...

SUPER COOPER

HENRY CLARK EXAMINES THE PATH TAKEN BY SWANSEA CITY’S IMPRESSIVE MANAGER STEVE COOPER Fun times: Steve Cooper is putting Swansea in...

UNITED 4 CHELSEA 0

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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 the...

HARRY KANE – KING OF CLONES

NATHAN GORNALL EXAMINES WHAT!WOULD HAPPEN IF ONE PLAYER IN EACH PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM FILLED ALL THE OUTFIELD POSITIONS MY FRIEND Stu asked...

PLAYER POWER

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

WELCOME TO LATE TACKLE

AFTER fans returned to stadiums in limited numbers at the tail end of last year, we were hoping it was going...

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 action:...

PEP’S BIG TEST

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