LOOKING BACK Heyday: Len Shackleton in action for Sunderland WHILST Paul Gascoigne may lay claim to being the crankiest footballer […]

STUART BOLTON recalls when a young Brazilian turned in a virtuoso display… STUART BOLTON Unstoppable: Pele celebrates scoring for Brazil […]

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DAVID DOCHERTY takes a look back at the career of a legendary player who shone for club and country… DAVID […]

SIMON SHELDON recalls when five and six-a-side competitions made a big impression… SIMON SHELDON WE HAVE all played a game […]

Experienced journalist JOHN WRAGG recalls meeting a teenage footballer who has gone on to carve out an incredible career… JOHN […]

IAN McFARLANE says the shot-stoppers of today aren’t a patch on those from yesteryear… IAN McFARLANE Bernard Lama GOALKEEPERS are […]

EVERTON 2 ARSENAL 1 FOR NEARLY ALL OF THIS MATCH ARSENAL’S LONG UNBEATEN RUN LOOKED ENTIRELY SAFE. To see more […]

SIMON ASHURST reflects on Wayne Rooney’s success-laden years with Manchester United… SIMON ASHURST Magic moment: Wayne Rooney scores his wonder […]

SPURS 0 LEEDS 3 ROGER KIRKPATRICK WAS THE REFEREE AT WHITE HART LANE ON SATURDAY, HE WAS HIGHLY VISIBLE, AS […]

SIMON ASHURST on the enigma that is Mario Balotelli… SIMON ASHURST Nice one: Mario is in France now BALOTELLI, WHY […]

JAMES RICHARDS recalls when an island team shocked Italy’s footballing aristocracry… JAMES RICHARDS LOOKING at the Serie A table, it […]

BEN ROBINSON suggests it’s time to give football programmes a swerve and move with the times… BEN ROBINSON WITH the […]

COLIN ALLAN recalls when the Three Lions won a tournament but with little fanfare… COLIN ALLAN ONLY the previous year, […]

JOHN WRAGG reflects on the relationship between Brian Clough and the boy he called The Bairn or The No9… JOHN […]

KEVIN HALLS looks back at the incredible career of an Everton hot-shot KEVIN HALLS ROMELU Lukaku is on fire this […]

ROB BRADLEY catches up with the Sheffield Wednesday striker who shocked Manchester United’s European Cup winners – and also had […]

ADAM ELLIS recalls the story of Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar – and how it affected the country’s football  BEFORE the […]

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PETER O’BRIEN explains how his Dad winning a crisps competition opened up a whole new world… ON HEARING of the […]

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CRAIG MUNCEY looks back to when the unfancied Greeks shocked the football world… LET me take you back to the […]

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KEVIN HALLS takes a look back to his days as a young football fan – a time of autographs, badges, […]

JULIAN NASH on why he’s taken the brave decision to quit the game that’s become an addiction for so many […]

 JAMIE DAVIES looks at the fall from grace of Spain – and their manager Vicente del Bosque S PAIN bowed […]

It’s more than a quarter of a century ago, but GED BARNES still cherishes the memory of his first World […]

Ask anyone about England’s World Cup winning side of ’66 and the names will trip off the tongue. But the […]

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He might be a Premier League winner with Leicester City now, but TOM GEORGE remembers when Kasper Schmeichel shone at […]