Retro

This is where you will find all of Late Tackle’s Retro articles and content.

A MAGICAL KARPATY RIDE

VOLODYMYR HOLOD RECALLS WHEN AN UNHERALDED UKRAINIAN SIDE CAUSED A MASSIVE SHOCK – AND INSPIRED A NATION… THE year 1969 is […]

DISASTROUS DERBY

KEVIN HALLS LOOKS BACK AT A SEASON THE RAMS WOULD RATHER FORGET… Floored: The Rams are devastated by Steven Gerrard’s […]

FEELING BLUE

BIRMINGHAM CITY FANATIC KEITH DIXON RECALLS WHEN HIS FAVOURITES LAST FEATURED IN AN FA CUP FINAL… What a hero: Manchester […]

BRILLIANT BELGIANS

STEPHEN BRANDT RECALLS WHEN BELGIUM FOOTBALL PUNCHED ABOVE ITS WEIGHT… BELGIUM have a top team now, but they were no […]

THE ITALIAN JOB

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN ENGLAND PASSED ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST TESTS WITH FLYING COLOURS,,, BILLY Wright passes to Stanley Matthews. […]

GAZZA, GLENN AND LA MANGA

LOOKING BACK STUART STEELYARD RECALLS WHEN PAUL GASCOIGNE’S ENGLAND CAREER CAME TO A SUDDEN AND CONTROVERSIAL END…. ENGLAND’S qualifying group […]

DUTCH MASTERS

LOOKING BACK ROSS KILVINGTON REFLECTS ON THE LEGACY OF HOLLAND’S 1974 WORLD CUP FINALISTS… SOMETIMES in sport, we think of […]

FOOTBALL AND THE 1980S

LOOKING BACK RICHARD CROOKS TAKES A LOOK BACK AT A DECADE THAT WAS MARKED BY MEMORABLE MOMENTS ON THE PITCH […]

THE MARACANAZO

LOOKING BACK ROSS KILVINGTON RECALLS BRAZIL’S WORLD CUP AGONY IN 1950 AND HOW THEIR GOALKEEPER SUFFERED FOR IT… Good save: […]

HAMMER HOUSE OF HORRORS

WEST HAM UNITED MICHAEL LEE REFLECTS ON WEST HAM’S DISASTROUS 2002-03 SEASON WHICH SAW THEM RELEGATED FROM THE PREMIER LEAGUE… […]

ENGLAND’S 70S MAVERICKS

LOOKING BACK DAVID DOCHERTY EXAMINES THE FORTUNES OF HALF-A-DOZEN OF OUR MOST TALENTED PLAYERS… Invariably, when books are written about […]

DIRTY FRANK

LOOKING BACK KEVIN!HALLS LOOKS!BACK!AT THE CAREER!OF FRANK BARSON, THE!ORIGINAL FOOTBALL HARDMAN On the charge: Frank Barson in control and also […]

ENGLAND!ON THEIR!TRAVELS

LOOKING BACK COLIN ALLAN RECALLS THE 1959 TRIP TO THE AMERICAS… Bobby Charlton Jimmy Armfi eld ENGLAND’S tour of 1959 […]

THE GOOD OLD DAYS…

LOOKING BACK NEIL SAMBROOK REFLECTS ON HOW FOOTBALL HAS CHANGED OVER THE YEARS… Marksman: Tottenham’s Jimmy Greaves shoots against Aston […]

KEN FOGARTY’S BEST DAYS

LOOKING BACK STUART BOLTON CATCHES UP WITH THE STOCKPORT STALWART WHO PLAYED ALONGSIDE GEORGE BEST ON BOTH SIDES OF THE […]

BEST OF BRITISH

LOOKING BACK SIMON SHELDON TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE LONG SINCE GONE BRITISH HOME CHAMPIONSHIP… Smart finish: England’s Kevin […]

STU’S WEMBLEY WONDERLAND

LOOKING BACK ASTON VILLA FAN STUART STEELYARD RECALLS WATCHING HIS BOYHOOD FAVOURITES BEAT MANCHESTER UNITED IN THE LEAGUE CUP FINAL […]

THE CHANGING GAME?

LOOKING BACK KEITH DIXON STEPS BACK IN TIME TO LOOK AT THE ISSUES AFFECTING FOOTBALL IN THE PAST… Glory boys: […]