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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
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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 […]
GIVE ’EM THE BOOT!
Pink, orange, yellow, turquoise – there’s no colour of boot that footballers don’t wear these days. But remember when boots […]
PRESS-ING MATTERS
DANIEL SMITH reckons there’s too much focus on the Premier League – and journalists are getting too close to their […]
THE MYTH OF CHRISTMAS
CHRIS DUNLAVY says being bottom at Yuletife is not necessarily a disaster YOU know what they say about being bottom […]
POPPING MY FOOTBALL CHERRY
‘ORRIBLE IVES’ of Wigan Athletic fanzine The Mudhutter remembers the first time Springfield Park IT WAS around about 1973-74 that […]
TACKLING BIRTHDAYS
Rubbish football cards… they were, er, quite good, actually, says ASHLEY GREB, and he wonders why we can’t buy them any […]
STRIPPED BACK
Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent […]
HESKEY REVISITED
JAMES DUTTON looks at one of the most-maligned of the old-style centre-forward and asks, was he THAT bad? HAVE you […]
CONFESSIONS OF A SOCCER SPURLOCK…
CHRIS SHAW binges on televised football for a weekend and rediscovers a love of neutral viewing IDOUBT there is anyone […]
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GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66
No, not that one. MICHAEL MOWBRAY had a jumping out of the bath experience that led to him attending more […]
NOT SINGING ANY MORE?
NEIL SCOTT wonders why so few have cracked it when it comes to fusing togger and tunes into a successful […]