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Adriano (Yes, That Adriano) Attempting Yet Another Career Relaunch –‘99%...
By Chris Wright Having invited him over to have a nosey around their facilities several times over the past couple of weeks, it seems that the continuing fable of Adriano Leite Ribeiro is set for a...
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Football Art: Howler Magazine Re-imagine Rooney, Ronaldo, Messi, Neymar &...
By Chris Wright As part of their “Anytime Heroes” piece from Issue 6, the good folks over at Howler magazine have commissioned illustrator Chris Moran (@chrismoranART) to re-imagine several of today’s...
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Stop Us If You’ve Heard This One Before: The Night 16-Year-Old Wayne Rooney...
By Chris Wright As unlikely as it may seem, beneath that pork scratching of an exterior, it would appear that Wayne Rooney harbours the sensitive soul of a poet. To that end, former England youth...
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Retro Football: Jimmy Quinn Helps Northern Ireland Secure 1986 WC...
By Alan Duffy Ahead of Northern Ireland’s Euro 2016 clash with Romania in Bucharest, we thought it the perfect time to relive Jimmy Quinn’s famous goal for the North away in Romania which helped to...
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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Has A Stab At Recreating Thierry Henry’s Famous Goal...
By Chris Wright Blink and you’ll miss it Thierry Henry’s instinctive, mercurial volley against Manchester United at Highbury in 2000 is routinely bandied around when discussing the greatest goals ever...
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Classic Moments: Southampton Legend Ali ‘The Liar’ Dia Makes His Debut, 1996...
By Chris Wright It hardly seems like yesterday, but 18 years ago this very week saw the debut of a man who would go on to establish himself as an absolute, bona fide club legend at Southampton – in...
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Classic Moments: Michael Ballack Fails At Target Practice, 2008 (Video)
By Chris Wright Re-uploaded by the Chelsea Twitter bods this very morning, this classic clip sees former Blues midfielder Michael Ballack dabbling in a spot of target practice during a training...
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Retro Football: 18 Cracking Vintage Photos Of British Players Who Moved Abroad
By Chris Wright Presenting 18 cracking vintage photos of British players who have moved to play abroad - celebrating those intrepid souls who have ventured from these shores to ply their trade...
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Retro Football: Frank Sinatra Writes To Graeme Souness To Thank Him For A...
By Chris Wright Admittedly things are a looking a little ropey these days but it’s fair to say Glasgow Rangers have had some stellar names grace the turf at Ibrox over the years. However, none are...
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14 Brilliant Photos Of Thierry Henry In His Arsenal Pomp
By Chris Wright Sadly, all things must pass (into retirement), with the news today that the great Thierry Henry has bitten the bullet and called time on his playing days at the grand old age of 37 –...
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Retro Football: Benfica Legend Jose Torres Celebrates In The Snow, 1969 (Video)
By Chris Wright Jose Torres (squatted directly to Eusebio’s right): an integral part of Benfica’s legendary line-up It was February 12th of 1969 and the temperature was hovering down around zero in...
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Football Art: Motherwell Produce Brilliant Series Of Drop-Dead Gorgeous...
By Chris Wright Thanks to the skilled hand of Motherwell’s very own in-house graphic designer, Alastair Reilly, the Scottish club have produced individual “matchday” artworks for each of their...
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Retro Football: Sky Sports Kick Off With Gloriously Naff Launch Advert, 1992...
By Chris Wright “I like the jacket, but do you do it in pissy yellow?” Posted up yesterday by Sky Sports themselves as a ‘throwback Thursday’-type thing, here’s one of several flashy(ish) promos used...
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Random Great Goals: Patrick M’Boma (Gamba Osaka) vs Shonan Bellmare, 1997...
By Chris Wright “Someone order a brick shithouse?” In what we’re planning to make a semi-regular little series on Pies, we thought we’d pluck a great, if slightly lesser-known goal from the archives...
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The Black-And-White Years: Portuguese Amateur Goalkeeper’s Protective...
By Chris Wright This here be a vintage team photo (taken outside the public toilet, no less) of the 1967 Leões FC squad, who hailed from the coastal town of Peniche in Portugal. They’re a rag-tage...
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Random Great Goals: Lothar Matthaus (Bayern Munich) vs Bayer Leverkusen, 1993...
By Chris Wright In what we’re hoping will become a semi-regular little series on Pies, we thought we’d pluck great, if slightly lesser-known goals from the archives at random and duly give them their...
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Random Great Goals: Ian Wright (Arsenal) vs Swindon Town, 1993 (Video)
By Chris Wright Before Bergkamp and Henry at Arsenal, there was Ian Wright, Wright, Wright (no relation). With strike partner Kevin Campbell having already scored a hat-trick, it was Wright who popped...
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Retro Football: Semi-Naked Laurent Blanc Poses For The Weirdest Panini...
By Chris Wright Sometimes there are no words… If you’ve been affected by any of the issues raised by this image then we suggest finding a nice, remote cave in which to live our your days as a...
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Random Great Goals: Roberto Cabanas (New York Cosmos) vs Tulsa Roughnecks,...
By Chris Wright In what we’re hoping will become a semi-regular little series on Pies, we thought we’d pluck great, if slightly lesser-known goals from the archives at random and duly give them their...
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Random Great Goals: Steve Bull (England) vs Czechoslovakia, 1990 (Video)
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com Steve Bull scored a club record 306 goals (including 18 hat-tricks) over the course of his legendary 13-year stint at Wolverhampton Wanderers, though he...
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