For footie fans of a certain vintage, it’s easy to feel a little downtrodden. We throw the ‘beautiful game’ mantra […]

STEP HEN TUDOUR admits his secret affection for a man he once detested – Gary Neville EVERY Monday evening, before […]

MOST OBSCURE TRIVIA EVER Shinji Kagawa will be the 12th Manches-ter United player under Sir Alex Ferguson whose surname is […]

DAVID CHILDS reveals his Bhoy-hood memories WHILE walking down Byers Road in Glasgow’s West End, I found myself stopping to […]

As ever, thanks for buying the magazine. It’s the summer, it’s the Euros and yet another season of madness is […]

NICK YOUNG laments the slow transition from terrace to television – and urges fans to bin the box for some […]

American media man ANDY ELRICK lifts the lid on why he’s a sucker for ‘soccer’ IAM not sure what the […]

CHRIS DUNLAVY contemplates the star wars that resulted in players with silky skills crashing off the international radars WE all […]

DUNLAVY DUNLAVY figures out that the Argentinian method of where teams finish in the league table is a number-crunching game […]

ALAN JOHNSON explains how banning bangers has been a recipe for success and made Forest Green hungry to serve more […]

DID YOU KNOW   As the European Championship approaches – and thoughts turn to the blessed Germans winning again – […]

SIMON HUGHES shines light on an appeal to give a team formed in 1894 a bright future THE wooden hub […]

JAMES OWENS just can’t get excited about the new Three Lions boss WATCHING Ricky Tomlinson as the haphazard, heart-on-sleeve gaffer […]

LAWRENCE COHEN couldn’t give hoot about the trum pets and drums that follow England The England Band    THEY lack […]

CHRIS DUNLAVY recalls when passion reached boiling point and trouble brewed Paolo Di Canio VERBAL abuse is as much a […]

DAVID HASTINGS on Alessandro Del Piero and Juventus – one of football’s most enduring relationships ON the 25th March 2012, […]

PAUL WILLS explodes the myth that the game’s lost its physicality AS MUCH as I’d have liked to get physical […]

KRIS GRIFFIN does Serie A on a shoestring Stadio Olimpico Toto Schillaci WALKING through the urban sprawl of the Olympic […]

NEIL SCOTT is sick of the scramble to quantify everything in football Diego Maradona,Lionel Messi,Pele Lionel Messie slaloms through yet […]

CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some famous ‘projects’ tha t turned from wonder into dust EVERY division has got one – a […]

SCOTT TERRIO is predicting more highs for Low Mesut Ozil goes round Austria goalkeeper Christian Gratzei to score for Germany FORGET […]

MIKE MILES meanders through a mind-boggling maze of money madness ON my office wall is a two-page spread from the […]

So we’re back. A bit later than planned, but better late than never and all that. If you’ve read Late […]

PETER BATEMAN gets all dewy-eyed over a short-lived footie mag from the 70s OSTALGIA Chelsea’s Ron Harris was king of […]

ANDREW CHERRIE wonders why a safe solution can’t be found for the serial standers at football TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND people […]

PAUL BROWN remembers the humble beginnings of the console togger EACH new instalment of FIFA and Pro Evo, EA Sports’ […]

TONY MOGAN reveals his guilty secret It’s 3:37 am. I’ve been sat in this dark room, hunched over my laptop, […]

MARTIN ‘Jimmy’ TARBUCK from Wigan fanzine The Mudhutter is dreading the drop. To prepare himself for the worst, he spoke […]

CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some illustrious, and fatal, relegations River Plate players in 2011 TOO Good to go down? Tell that […]

WITH PATRICK JOHN DID YOU KNOW   While the rest of this sea-faring nation marked the centenary of the sinking […]