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Retro Football: Drunken Stuart McCall Falls Off Car While Celebrating...
By Chris Wright Just a wee bit worse for wear, here’s Bradford City’s veteran midfielder Stuart McCall finding himself embroiled in a slapstick car accident in the car-park behind Valley Parade after...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #10: Emmanuel Sanon (Haiti) vs Italy, 1974 (Video)
By Chris Wright While virtually unknown the rest of the world over, Emmanuel Sanon was and is a true footballing icon in his homeland of Haiti - being, as he is, the only Haitian player to have scored...
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Football Songs: Feast Your Ears On ‘Norwich City Calypso’ By The Chic Applin...
By Chris Wright Originally released on 7″ vinyl in 1972, what we have hear is a cracking little pop ditty about Norwich City by a band by the name of The Chic Applin Sound from back when white people...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #11: Josimar (Brazil) vs Northern Ireland, 1986...
By Chris Wright As was to be expected, Northern Ireland went out at the group stage of the 1986 World Cup without winning a game - Brazil putting the final nail in the Irish coffin with a comfortable...
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Ryan Giggs’ 23 Years At Man Utd Beautifully Captured In Animated GIF Form
By Chris Wright “I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and he floated across the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.” – Sir Alex Ferguson (GIF:...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #13: Dennis Bergkamp (Holland) vs Argentina, 1998...
By Chris Wright Perhaps lucky to be playing in the first place after petulantly stamping on Yugoslavia’s Sinisa Mihajlovic in the previous round, Dennis Bergkamp reached his immaculate zenith against...
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The Black-And-White Years: David Rocastle Dances On Islington Town Hall...
By Chris Wright Dated 28th May, 1989: Here we see the late, great David Rocastle dancing (rather precariously) on the balcony of Islington Town Hall, League Championship trophy in hand, as thousands...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #14: Dragan Stojkovic (Yugoslavia) vs Spain, 1990...
By Chris Wright As we’ve eulogised before here on Pies, Dragan Stojkovic was one of those players, like Matt Le Tissier, who would never be allowed to make it through the ranks nowadays. Phenomenally...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #15: Chiqui Arce (Paraguay) vs South Africa, 2002...
By Chris Wright One of the great unsung dead-ball specialists of the relatively recent past, two set-pieces from Francisco “Chiqui” Arce saw Paraguay go 2-0 up over South Africa in the opening Group B...
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The ‘Kevin Keegan Will Flog Any Old Tat’ Files: Goal! Football Ice Lolly With...
By Chris Wright In a new series we are planning to run semi-regularly on Pies, we take a look at the great groaning pantheon of footballing and non-footballing tat that Kevin Keegan has signed up to...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #16: Esteban Cambiasso (Argentina) vs Serbia &...
By Chris Wright Argentina well and truly thumped Serbia & Montenegro in their second Group C fixture at the 2006 World Cup, winning 6-0 in Gelsenkirchen and comfortably securing themselves a berth...
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Retro Football Advert: George Best Strikers – All Action Shoes For All Action...
By Chris Wright George Best peddled several versions of his signature (and incredibly futuristic for the late 1960′s) Stylo Matchmaker football boots during his heyday, but he also put his name to a...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #18: Hans Krankl (Austria) vs West Germany, 1978...
By Chris Wright With the game itself still referred to by Austrian football fans of a certain vintage as “The Miracle of Cordoba”, it was striker Hans Krankl’s stunning volley that gave Austria their...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #17: Sunday Oliseh (Nigeria) vs Spain, 1998 (Video)
By Chris Wright Despite being included as one of France 98′s bottom seeds, Nigeria beat both Spain and Bulgaria to emerge from Group D as surprise winners before tanking against Denmark in the second...
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Fluminense To Mark 100th Anniversary Of Brazilian National Side’s First Ever...
By Chris Wright Brazil’s first ever match against Exeter City, 1914 (Image via Wiki) Brazilian side Fluminense have announced that they are to stage a special exhibition friendly in Rio de Janeiro...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #20: Dinko Dermendjiev (Bulgaria) vs Peru, 1970...
By Chris Wright Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Beautiful. Like shit off a shovel, if you’ll excuse our French. More in the series… #1 – Maxi Rodriguez (Argentina) vs Mexico, 2006...
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Retro Football: ‘It’s Unprofessional, Undignified And Silly’– FA Write To...
By Chris Wright Circa 1995, here’s evidence that the FA proving were always willing to tackle the big issues eating away at football’s moral fibre with the gusto we’ve come to expect – writing to...
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Black-And-White Snapshot: Cracking Photo Of The (Very) Young Frank Lampard Jnr…
By Chris Wright West Ham’s Frank Lampard Sr. and his late wife Patricia, seen here holding ‘ickle baby Frank Jnr – a matter of hours old after being born unto the world on June 20th, 1978… Bless!...
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Retro Football: Brazil Run Amok At The Airport In Nike’s Classic World Cup...
By Chris Wright Still one of the finest football adverts ever made in Pies’ humble estimation, Nike had the star-studded Brazil side of 1998 (we’re talking Ronaldo, Romario, Denilson, Roberto Carlos,...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #21: Siphiwe Tshabalala (South Africa) vs Mexico,...
By Chris Wright Bringing back horrible memories of those f**king vuvuzelas making the entire 2010 tournament sound like a colony of wasps had set up base camp inside your cranium, here’s Siphiwe...
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