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Ronaldo deserves to be a winner
WALSH’S WORLD KRISTIAN WALSH FEELS SOME SYMPATHY CRISTIANO RONALDO took one brief glance at Petr Cech prone on the floor […]
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN THE TEAM OF THE COUNTRY
CHRIS DUNLAVY says that Yugoslavia deserve their place alongside Brazil, Hungary, Holland and Spain ASKED to name a great international […]
BRASSED OFF!
LAWRENCE COHEN couldn’t give hoot about the trum pets and drums that follow England The England Band THEY lack […]
WHERE’S THE PASSION IN DEAR OLD ROY?
JAMES OWENS just can’t get excited about the new Three Lions boss WATCHING Ricky Tomlinson as the haphazard, heart-on-sleeve gaffer […]
KEEPING THE SHIP AFLOAT
SIMON HUGHES shines light on an appeal to give a team formed in 1894 a bright future THE wooden hub […]
RANDOM… WITH PATRICK JOHN
DID YOU KNOW As the European Championship approaches – and thoughts turn to the blessed Germans winning again – […]
GREEN BY NAME GREEN BY NATURE
ALAN JOHNSON explains how banning bangers has been a recipe for success and made Forest Green hungry to serve more […]
WHEN FINISHING THIRD CAN MEAN RELEGATION
DUNLAVY DUNLAVY figures out that the Argentinian method of where teams finish in the league table is a number-crunching game […]
UNSUNG HEROES OF THE EUROS
CHRIS DUNLAVY contemplates the star wars that resulted in players with silky skills crashing off the international radars WE all […]
IN A STATE OVER BRITISH FOOTBALL
American media man ANDY ELRICK lifts the lid on why he’s a sucker for ‘soccer’ IAM not sure what the […]
TURN OFF THE TV AND GET DOWN TO THE GAME
NICK YOUNG laments the slow transition from terrace to television – and urges fans to bin the box for some […]
GEORGIANS ON THE MIND AT MAN CITY
It hasn’t always been big bucks and glory with foreign players in the blue half of Manchester. IAIN THOMSON looks […]
Welcome to late tackle
As ever, thanks for buying the magazine. It’s the summer, it’s the Euros and yet another season of madness is […]
LETS ALL MEET UP IN THE YEAR 2000
DAVID CHILDS reveals his Bhoy-hood memories WHILE walking down Byers Road in Glasgow’s West End, I found myself stopping to […]
IS MESSI BETTER THAN PELE AND WHO CARES?
NEIL SCOTT is sick of the scramble to quantify everything in football Diego Maradona,Lionel Messi,Pele Lionel Messie slaloms through yet […]
Sub goalies flap like Icarus near the sun
CHRIS DUNLAVY THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST WHAT’S killing football? Some say diving. Others say money. Quite a lot say […]
ITAL DO NICELY AND ALL FOR A TON
KRIS GRIFFIN does Serie A on a shoestring Stadio Olimpico Toto Schillaci WALKING through the urban sprawl of the Olympic […]
GOING SOFT? FOOTBALL IS FEROCIOUS THESE DAYS
PAUL WILLS explodes the myth that the game’s lost its physicality AS MUCH as I’d have liked to get physical […]
LOVE AFFAIR WITH AN OLD LADY
DAVID HASTINGS on Alessandro Del Piero and Juventus – one of football’s most enduring relationships ON the 25th March 2012, […]
THE MANAGERS STRIKES BACK
CHRIS DUNLAVY recalls when passion reached boiling point and trouble brewed Paolo Di Canio VERBAL abuse is as much a […]
They think it’s all r-over… It is now (Just like the fans said it would be)
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS BLACKBURN fans have got every right to feel robbed, resentful and wronged right now – and not only […]
TV cash in danger of wrecking Euros
Walsh. s world KRISTIAN WALSH HAS A NEW VISION FOR TELLY WHEN Marco van Basten lifted Russia’s ball into the […]
Know-nothing owners should stay in their hospitality boxes
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS IMAGINE walking into a garage, taking the spanner from a mechanic’s hand and saying ‘hang on, mate […]
THE WAY WE WERE…
What happened to the old grounds when they closed? Plough Lane IN the big bucks era of the Premier League […]
RANDOM…
WITH PATRICK JOHN DID YOU KNOW While the rest of this sea-faring nation marked the centenary of the sinking […]
IT CAN MEAN LIFE OR DEATH
CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some illustrious, and fatal, relegations River Plate players in 2011 TOO Good to go down? Tell that […]
Stars of the future who fell to earth
CHRIS DUNLAVY-THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER COLUMNIST PICKING a star of the future can be embarrassing. Remember when everyone thought John […]
RELEGATION… THE MOST FEARED WORD IN THE FOOTBALL DICTIONARY
MARTIN ‘Jimmy’ TARBUCK from Wigan fanzine The Mudhutter is dreading the drop. To prepare himself for the worst, he spoke […]
ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT, IN THE DUGOUT IS SIMPLY EXHAUSTING
TONY MOGAN reveals his guilty secret It’s 3:37 am. I’ve been sat in this dark room, hunched over my laptop, […]