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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, […]
They used to Pong, now they’re potent
PAUL BROWN remembers the humble beginnings of the console togger EACH new instalment of FIFA and Pro Evo, EA Sports’ […]
STAND FOR THE TERRAGE
ANDREW CHERRIE wonders why a safe solution can’t be found for the serial standers at football TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND people […]
WHEN THEY ALL CRIED FOUL AND LOVES IT!
PETER BATEMAN gets all dewy-eyed over a short-lived footie mag from the 70s OSTALGIA Chelsea’s Ron Harris was king of […]
WELCOME TO LATE TACKLE
So we’re back. A bit later than planned, but better late than never and all that. If you’ve read Late […]
FROM 12 QUID A WEEK TO 240,000… HOW IT ALL BEGAN
MIKE MILES meanders through a mind-boggling maze of money madness ON my office wall is a two-page spread from the […]
WHY DEUTSCHLAND CAN BE ÜBER ALLES ONCE AGAIN
SCOTT TERRIO is predicting more highs for Low Mesut Ozil goes round Austria goalkeeper Christian Gratzei to score for Germany FORGET […]
WHO’S PLAYING WITH WHO?
THE WAGS get a bad name generally and it’s easy to see why with their Imelda Marcos-style shopping sprees and […]
BUSTED CLUBS AND BROKEN DREAMS
CHRIS DUNLAVY charts some famous ‘projects’ tha t turned from wonder into dust EVERY division has got one – a […]
CHINA GIANT IS WAKING AND FLEXING IT’S FOOTBALLING MUSCLES
ANDREW CRAWFORD on why football in China is finally on the up Nicolas Anelka meets his new fans THE Chinese […]
THE GROWING-UP MOMENT YOU REALISE THAT TACTICS AREN’T MINTS
NICK YOUNG on how England’s finally smelling the coffee when it comes to tactics Rory Delap ONE of the great […]
YES, TEARS FOR SOUVENIRS BUT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE…
PATRICK JOHN defends a World Cup that’s remembered for all the wrong reasons IT was widely derided as the worst […]