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Retro Football: Elton John Can’t Resist Innuendo While Presenting ‘The Big...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com Every year, The Big Match (pretty much ITV’s answer to Match of the Day) would produce a special Christmas edition of the show where the format went out of...
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Random Great Goals: Maverick Mexican Goalkeeper Jorge Campos Scores...
By Chris Wright Stop it Jorge, you’ll have somebody’s eye out By day he was your average, mild-mannered maverick Mexican goalkeeper with a penchant for designing his own kits, but it’s perhaps less...
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Blue Moon Rising Present: A Tribute To ‘King Of The Kippax’– The Last Of The...
By Chris Wright Great little Friday afternoon watch this. Football fanzines are going to the wall at a rate of knots these days, a decline that has seen even relatively flush outfits such as...
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Random Great Goals: Zico Scores The Most Beautiful Goal Of His Career...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com After dabbling in Brazilian politics for a couple of years, Zico came out of retirement at the age of 37 in 1991 after accepting a lucrative deal to go...
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Birth Certificate Discovery Reveals George Best’s Original Birth Name…And It...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com You may think you know all there is to know about Manchester United legend George Best but, thanks to a bit of digging by a Northern Irish newspaper, it...
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Random Great Goals: Newcastle W(h)inger Laurent Robert Scores Baffling...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com One to cheer the Newcastle fans up here, with a trip back in time to the heady days of 2004 and Laurent Robert’s absurd goal in the Toon’s 3-1 win over...
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Criminally Underrated: Lothar Matthaus
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com He played for what felt like 40 years, won all there was to win both domestically and internationally, captained club and country, made well over 100...
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Classic Moments: Gordon Strachan Adds Snarky Narration To Wenger’s Absurd...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com “What? You said ‘Go to bread'” The year was 2009 and, with his team trailing 2-1 against Manchester United at Old Trafford, Arsene Wenger made the heinous...
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RIP Mwepu Ilunga – Zaire 1974 World Cup Side’s Maverick Free-Kick Vigilante...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com Sad news is reaching us this morning that Mwepu Ilunga, the most famous member of Zaire’s esteemed 1974 World Cup side, has passed away at the age of 66...
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Random Great Goals: Nwankwo Kanu Softly Destroys Middlesbrough With...
By Chris Wright For a man who was clearly pushing senior citizenship, shared the same bodily proportions as Olive Oyl and had a hole in his heart, Nwankwo Kanu was one hell of a footballer. Lithe,...
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The Black-And-White Years: 10 Fabulous Photos Of Arsenal Fans In The 1930s
Arsenal in the 1930s were English football’s most successful team. Under the coaching of club legend Herbert Chapman – who joined Arsenal in 1925 from the then mighty Huddersfield Town – the Gunners...
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Random Great Goals: Brad Friedel Joins The Ancient Masonic Order Of...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com “Holy crud! Total scorezone!” We all knew this day would come eventually, but Brad Friedel has announced that he is to retire at the end of the current...
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The Black-And-White Years: Man Utd Take The Train Home With The FA Cup, 1963...
It’s 25th May 1963, and Manchester United have just won the FA Cup having beaten Leicester City 3-1 in the final at Wembley – this coming after the Foxes had beaten United home and away in the league...
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17 Years, One Sensible Haircut: Steven Gerrard’s Hair Evolution Mapped Out In...
By Chris Wright There we were, busy painstakingly compiling a season-by-season photographic retrospective appraisal of Steven Gerrard’s 17-year hair portfolio only for the bloody BBC to go and steal...
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Retro Football: Wimbledon Players Moon In Unison During Alan Cork’s...
Wonderful scenes here from back in the good old days, when a bit of gentlemanly cheek wasn’t so much scorned as positively encouraged. We join the action during Wimbledon legend Alan Cork’s...
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12 Epic Photos Of Liverpool Fans In The 20th Century
On 29 April 1901, Liverpool won their first title. At the end of the 1989-1990 season, the Reds had won 17th titles. But arguably their greatest nights were those that saw them win the Euopean Cup in...
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8-Bit Football Recreate Roberto Carlos’ Famous Free-Kick Against France In...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com Having knocked out tons of brilliant retro pixelated images over the years, the chaps over at 8-Bit Football have finally produced their very first video...
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Random Great Goals: Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink Free-Kick Almost Breaks The Sound...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com Thanks largely to his ability to shoot with raw, thumping power and surgical precision, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink bowed out with a procession of spectacular...
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10 Fantastic Photos Of The Young Andrea Pirlo
By Chris Wright Today is Andrea Pirlo’s birthday, with Juventus’ midfielder metronome turning 36 years young! Long may he reign. However, long before the dreamy facial topiary, the personal vineyard...
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Retro Football: 13 Great Archive Photos Of The 1939 FA Cup
On April 29th of 1939 Portsmouth defeated Wolverhampton Wanderers 4–1 in the FA Cup Final. The Second World War meant the next FA Cup final was not held again til 1946. These photographs are of that...
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