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WHEN SLIM JIM WAS ENGLAND’S BIGGEST SCOURGE
DAVID DOCHERTY looks at the glorious, if fleeting, career of Scotland in side forward Jim Baxter Pressing the self-destruct button […]
NO ONE’S PLAYING POLITICS
RAMÒN BENÍTEZ remembers when footballers were more willing to espouse their, mainly, left-wing leanings FOOTBALL is … sorry, was a […]
FOOTBALL FANS DON , T DO THINGS BY HALVES
MERV PAYNE laments a fashion disaster that is creeping its way to a terrace near you WHEN it comes to […]
MATCH MEMORIES… KEEGAN COMES TO TOON
MARK GODFREY remembers King Kev’s bow for the Magpies against QPR in August, 1982. IN the early 1980s there was […]
DO YOU LIKE THE BOOKS WOT I WROTE?
CHRIS DUNLAVY delves into the phenomenon of sporstmen trying their luck as authors CLEARLY, Frank Lampard had to mine the […]
ENGLAND C GET RESOUNDING A FOR ACHIEVMENT
STUART HAMMONDS looks back over a decade of excellence for Paul Fairclough and his Non-League international team WHEN Stuart Pearce […]
BLUE MOON I SAW YOU STANDING ALONE
GARETH ROBERTS suggests the behaviour of Roberto Mancini shows all is not well on the blue side of Manchester THERE’S […]
THE MICKEY MOUSE CUPS
NEIL COTTON examines the knock-out competitions that football discarded Jaap Stam and Romario clash in the Intercontinental Cup in 1999 […]
REMEMBERING CHARLTON’S GREAT DANE
NIGEL MANNERING recalls when the European Footballer of the Year joined the Second Division The January transfer window is in […]
BARGAIN OR BOMB? TRANSFER TRAUMAS
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the most expensive failures..and some of the greatest cut-price buys Nicolas Anelka AH, the […]
WHAM BAM THANK YOU FLAM
HUGO GREENHALGH considers the career of one of his favourite players, Mathieu Flamini, and asks whether he left Arsenal too […]
YOUR TEAM’S CALLED WHAT EXACTLY?
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the more colourful – and fanciful – club names BACK in the day, there […]
1962-63 THE BIG FREEZE
STEPHEN ROBERTS looks back at the worst winter British football has endured in recent history AS an ardent football spectator […]
WALSH’S WORLD
KRISTIAN WALSH GOES BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE TV CREW AT MANSFIELD V LIVERPOOL TO SEE IF THE FA CUP […]
JUST WALK AWAY?
SIMON CRAFT asks should players leave the pitch if they are subjected to racism? After Kevin Prince-Boateng and his AC […]
WRITE FOR LATE TACKLE
We’re always on the look out for contributions for future issues of Late Tackle. If you fancy writing for the […]
IT USED TO B E PAIRFECT
MARK GODFREY asks if two up top is gone for good ONCE upon a time, a key element to any […]
THE DAY ONE OF WORLD’S GREATEST TEAMS DIED
CHRIS DUNLAVY remembers the tragic events of May 4, 1949 when Torino’s team plane crashed IT was just before 5pm […]
WHAT’S THE REALITY OF FANTASY?
SIMON CRAFT worries that a game that was once a bit of fun is now becoming far too serious RUSHING […]
THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S FORGOTTEN CLUBS
COLIN PERRY takes a trip down memory lane to recall a not-so-famous five SINCE the introduction of automatic promotion and […]
Paying the price for tribalism
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS Supporters’ tunnel vision is just the ticket for greedy clubs FOOTBALL, as Jimmy Greaves said on more than […]
MK DONS v AFC WIMBLEDON MORE THAN JUST A GAME
DECLAN OLLEY attended the emotional FA Cup grudge match between MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon and saw first-hand just how […]
RUMOURS OF FOOTBALL’S DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED
A great year for British sport led to a lot of finger wagging at football, but CHRIS EVANS says its […]
WINDOW GAIN
This year marked the tenth anniversary of the January transfer window – an innovation that takes a bit too much […]
WINDOW PAIN
ASHLEY GREB laments the circus surrounding the January transfer window OF all the months in the year, I really bloody […]
IT’S BIN A LONG TIME
JON LIVESEY looks back at the career of legendary Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall and reviews his book, The Binman Chronicles. […]
THE CUP DOESN’T MEAN F.A. TO ME’
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS says you can’t beat The FA Cup third-round draw I’d just watched a decent second-round tie […]
THE MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE
ALISTAIR MCLAUCHLAN, a Scot living in Ecuador, wonders who’s got it best when it comes to watching football Atahualpa Stadium […]
THE WRITES AND WRONGS OF FOOTBALL FANZINES
They’ve been kicking around for decades, but what exactly is – and isn’t – a fanzine? WILLIAM ABBS tries to […]