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 […]
BARGAIN OR BOMB? TRANSFER TRAUMAS 23 January 2013 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at some of the most expensive failures..and some of the greatest cut-price buys Nicolas Anelka AH, the […]
WINDOW PAIN 23 January 2013 0 comments ASHLEY GREB laments the circus surrounding the January transfer window OF all the months in the year, I really bloody […]
REMEMBERING CHARLTON’S GREAT DANE 23 January 2013 0 comments NIGEL MANNERING recalls when the European Footballer of the Year joined the Second Division The January transfer window is in […]
WINDOW GAIN 23 January 2013 0 comments This year marked the tenth anniversary of the January transfer window – an innovation that takes a bit too much […]
RUMOURS OF FOOTBALL’S DEMISE ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED 23 January 2013 0 comments A great year for British sport led to a lot of finger wagging at football, but CHRIS EVANS says its […]
GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66 19 December 2012 0 comments No, not that one. MICHAEL MOWBRAY had a jumping out of the bath experience that led to him attending more […]
WRITE FOR LATE TACKLE 19 December 2012 0 comments We’re always on the look out for contributions for future issues of Late Tackle. If you fancy writing for the […]
CONFESSIONS OF A SOCCER SPURLOCK… 19 December 2012 0 comments CHRIS SHAW binges on televised football for a weekend and rediscovers a love of neutral viewing IDOUBT there is anyone […]
HESKEY REVISITED 19 December 2012 0 comments JAMES DUTTON looks at one of the most-maligned of the old-style centre-forward and asks, was he THAT bad? HAVE you […]
STRIPPED BACK 19 December 2012 0 comments Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent […]
TACKLING BIRTHDAYS 19 December 2012 0 comments Rubbish football cards… they were, er, quite good, actually, says ASHLEY GREB, and he wonders why we can’t buy them any […]
POPPING MY FOOTBALL CHERRY 19 December 2012 0 comments ‘ORRIBLE IVES’ of Wigan Athletic fanzine The Mudhutter remembers the first time Springfield Park IT WAS around about 1973-74 that […]
THE MYTH OF CHRISTMAS 19 December 2012 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY says being bottom at Yuletife is not necessarily a disaster YOU know what they say about being bottom […]
PLAYING KETCHUP 19 December 2012 0 comments LUKE CONSTABLE wonders if Fernando Torres will ever truly rediscover his goalscoring touch AS PART of Roman Abramovich’s increasingly esoteric […]
PRESS-ING MATTERS 19 December 2012 0 comments DANIEL SMITH reckons there’s too much focus on the Premier League – and journalists are getting too close to their […]
BEWARE SNOW, FLOOODS AND TYRANTS 19 December 2012 0 comments CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the perils of the weather – and other less obvious influences on whether a match gets […]
GIVE ’EM THE BOOT! 19 December 2012 0 comments Pink, orange, yellow, turquoise – there’s no colour of boot that footballers don’t wear these days. But remember when boots […]
BRITS, BRIAN, BIG BALLS AND BENFICA 19 December 2012 0 comments STEVEN GREEN remembers when Portugal chopped Souey Graeme Souness at Benfica THERE are certain periods in every club’s history that […]
THE WRITES AND WRONGS OF FOOTBALL FANZINES 19 December 2012 0 comments They’ve been kicking around for decades, but what exactly is – and isn’t – a fanzine? WILLIAM ABBS tries to […]