CUT IN WAGES WOULD BE JUST THE TICKET 17 April 2013 0 comments Players’ salaries have driven up prices in football and TONY BARRETT says it’s time footballers considered supporters’ plight SOMEWHERE this […]
MOACYR BARBOSA 17 April 2013 0 comments A MISTAKE THAT SHOCKED A NATION SAM HUGHES looks back on the vitriol poured on Brazil’s goalkeeper for the ‘error’ […]
The Second Coming of Third THIRD LANARK 17 April 2013 0 comments MARK GODFREY recalls a long-forgotten football club – and looks at plans for it to rise again Third Lanark vs […]
ENGLAND C GET RESOUNDING A FOR ACHIEVMENT 27 February 2013 0 comments STUART HAMMONDS looks back over a decade of excellence for Paul Fairclough and his Non-League international team WHEN Stuart Pearce […]
DO YOU LIKE THE BOOKS WOT I WROTE? 27 February 2013 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY delves into the phenomenon of sporstmen trying their luck as authors CLEARLY, Frank Lampard had to mine the […]
MATCH MEMORIES… KEEGAN COMES TO TOON 27 February 2013 0 comments MARK GODFREY remembers King Kev’s bow for the Magpies against QPR in August, 1982. IN the early 1980s there was […]
FOOTBALL FANS DON , T DO THINGS BY HALVES 27 February 2013 0 comments MERV PAYNE laments a fashion disaster that is creeping its way to a terrace near you WHEN it comes to […]
NO ONE’S PLAYING POLITICS 27 February 2013 0 comments RAMÒN BENÍTEZ remembers when footballers were more willing to espouse their, mainly, left-wing leanings FOOTBALL is … sorry, was a […]
WHEN SLIM JIM WAS ENGLAND’S BIGGEST SCOURGE 27 February 2013 0 comments DAVID DOCHERTY looks at the glorious, if fleeting, career of Scotland in side forward Jim Baxter Pressing the self-destruct button […]
ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? THEN WE’LL BEGIN… 27 February 2013 0 comments The new fad for missing games after taking the reins at a club is really grinding the gears of PAUL […]
WRITE FOR LATE TACKLE 27 February 2013 0 comments We’re always on the look out for contributions for future issues of Late Tackle. If you fancy writing for the […]
TELLY ACHE 27 February 2013 0 comments PAUL BROWN has an Andy Townsend-shaped problem with footie commentary on ITV Andy Townsend ANDY Townsend has an unmatched ability […]
THEY JUST DON’T GET IT 27 February 2013 0 comments One song sung at Old Trafford summed up all that was wrong with Manchester United for FC United of Manchester […]
PAUL MERSON… MAD PROPHET OF THE AIRWAVES 27 February 2013 0 comments When a pun-peddling player-turned-pundit bins the banter to say something is wrong with football, it’s time to listen, writes LUKE […]
FOLLOW THE LEADERS 27 February 2013 0 comments KEITH MENARY bemoans the lack of chest-pumping skippers in modern-day football – and looks back at six of the best […]
The Cape Crusaders 27 February 2013 0 comments The performances of Cape Verde in the Africa Cup of Nations raised a few eyebrows, including those of DAN RAWLEY […]
THE MICKEY MOUSE CUPS 27 February 2013 0 comments NEIL COTTON examines the knock-out competitions that football discarded Jaap Stam and Romario clash in the Intercontinental Cup in 1999 […]
BLUE MOON I SAW YOU STANDING ALONE 27 February 2013 0 comments GARETH ROBERTS suggests the behaviour of Roberto Mancini shows all is not well on the blue side of Manchester THERE’S […]
MK DONS v AFC WIMBLEDON MORE THAN JUST A GAME 23 January 2013 0 comments DECLAN OLLEY attended the emotional FA Cup grudge match between MK Dons and AFC Wimbledon and saw first-hand just how […]
Paying the price for tribalism 23 January 2013 0 comments GARETH ROBERTS RANTS Supporters’ tunnel vision is just the ticket for greedy clubs FOOTBALL, as Jimmy Greaves said on more than […]
THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE’S FORGOTTEN CLUBS 23 January 2013 0 comments COLIN PERRY takes a trip down memory lane to recall a not-so-famous five SINCE the introduction of automatic promotion and […]
WHAT’S THE REALITY OF FANTASY? 23 January 2013 0 comments SIMON CRAFT worries that a game that was once a bit of fun is now becoming far too serious RUSHING […]
THE DAY ONE OF WORLD’S GREATEST TEAMS DIED 23 January 2013 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY remembers the tragic events of May 4, 1949 when Torino’s team plane crashed IT was just before 5pm […]
IT USED TO B E PAIRFECT 23 January 2013 0 comments MARK GODFREY asks if two up top is gone for good ONCE upon a time, a key element to any […]
WRITE FOR LATE TACKLE 23 January 2013 0 comments We’re always on the look out for contributions for future issues of Late Tackle. If you fancy writing for the […]
JUST WALK AWAY? 23 January 2013 0 comments SIMON CRAFT asks should players leave the pitch if they are subjected to racism? After Kevin Prince-Boateng and his AC […]
WALSH’S WORLD 23 January 2013 0 comments KRISTIAN WALSH GOES BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE TV CREW AT MANSFIELD V LIVERPOOL TO SEE IF THE FA CUP […]
1962-63 THE BIG FREEZE 23 January 2013 0 comments STEPHEN ROBERTS looks back at the worst winter British football has endured in recent history AS an ardent football spectator […]
YOUR TEAM’S CALLED WHAT EXACTLY? 23 January 2013 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the more colourful – and fanciful – club names BACK in the day, there […]
WHAM BAM THANK YOU FLAM 23 January 2013 0 comments HUGO GREENHALGH considers the career of one of his favourite players, Mathieu Flamini, and asks whether he left Arsenal too […]