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Retro Football: A Selection Of Weapons Found On The Stoke City Terraces In...
Retro Football This is collection of weapons left on the Stoke City terraces and removed from fans in 1975. The police display includes: belts, razors, knives, an axe, scissors, a golf ball and, most...
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Manchester United: Footage Emerges Of Seven-Year-Old Memphis Depay Ripping It...
By Chris Wright With a £25-30million deal struck and a medical passed, Memphis Depay is now just sat twiddling his thumbs at PSV, counting down the days until he becomes a Manchester United player on...
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Retro Football: Anybody Fancy A Game Of ‘Snoccer’, The GREAT New Game Of The...
By Chris Wright Oh, countless are the hours we’ve all wiled away engaged in epic Snoccer duels over the years… Snooker + Soccer = Snoccer. Geddit? Subbuteo for the Raleigh Burner generation! Nope, we...
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Random Great Goals: Rampaging Paul Gascoigne Cleaves The Moldova Defence In...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com To celebrate the fact that Paul Gascoigne was born on this very day 48 years ago, Pies thought we might doff our caps and dedicate a Random Great Goal in...
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Saluting Albert Johanneson Of Leeds United: The First Black Footballer To...
Albert Johanneson of Leeds United, with fans at the Hendon FC ground, London, during a team training session before the FA Cup final against Liverpool, 28th April 1965. Johanneson is suffering from a...
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Remembering Heysel: 30 Harrowing Photos From One Of Football’s Darkest Days
By Chris Wright Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Heysel Stadium disaster, one of the bleakest, blackest days in the already murky morass that was British football in the 1980s. 29th May, 1985....
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Random Great Goals: Stuart Pearce Scores Ripping Free-Kick As Nott’m Forest...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com With absolutely zero hint of bias, Pies humbly present to you the best goal ever scored in an FA Cup Final without question. We are, of course, talking...
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Random Great Goals: PSG Cult Hero Francis Llacer Scores Monstrous Volley...
By Chris Wright While hardly the most gifted player of his generation, you have to give Francis Llacer credit for his finding his niche – providing erstwhile, solidly unspectacular full-back cover for...
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Manchester United 2015/16 Kits Leak, New Third Strip Is Slice Of Early 90’s...
By Chris Wright As modelled by an incredibly serene Ashley Young (bird guano is obviously one helluva drug), this photo purporting to be Manchester United’s brand new Adidas home shirt for 2015/16 has...
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Random Great Goals: Steven Reid Unleashes 98mph Missile Against Wigan, 2005...
By Chris Wright We originally earmarked this goal for inclusion in our ‘When Crap Players Score Great Goals‘ feature yesterday, but we felt we were being a touch harsh on Steven Reid – who wasn’t...
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Retro Football: The Fax Sent From AC Milan To Ajax After Losing The 1995...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com By ‘eck, it was ridiculous how good that team was! Shortly after Ajax’s golden generation had slogged their way to a 1-0 win over AC Milan in the 1995...
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Retro Football: Jose Mourinho Translates As Sir Bobby Robson Talks Three...
By Chris Wright As cobbled together by Spanish TV show Fiebre Maldini earlier in the week, here’s a few classic swatches of footage showing Jose Mourinho during his Barcelona days, doing his level...
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Classic Moments: Benjamin Massing Well And Truly Nobbles Claudio Caniggia At...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com They used to call Claudio Caniggia ‘El Hijo del Viento’ (The Son of the Wind) during his pomp because of his uncanny ability to swirl and breeze past...
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Classic Moments: 19 Years Ago Today, Paul Gascoigne Scores ‘That Goal’...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com 19 years ago to this very day, Paul Gascoigne scored *that* goal against Scotland in the group stages at Euro 96, all while managing to avoid being...
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Craptastic Football Mascot Of The Day: Washington Diplomats’ Hideous Blue...
By Chris Wright Welcome to Washington DC, Johan… Nope, us neither. Hands up, there isn’t a single thing we can tell you about this blue, fuzzy, matted, snorkel-faced, aardvarky-looking monstrosity...
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Retro Football: Dennis Bergkamp’s 120 Arsenal Goals In All Their Twinkle-Toed...
By Alan Duffy View image | gettyimages.com 20 years ago today, a certain Dennis Bergkamp joined Arsenal for £7.5million, with the Gunners trebling their previous transfer record to secure the services...
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On This Day In 1986: Diego Maradona Scores With The Hand Of God And The Feet...
View image | gettyimages.com “What hand of God? It was the hand of Diego, and it was like pickpocketing the English too.” It’s 28 years ago today since one of the most iconic, or infamous – depending...
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Barcelona Celebrate Lionel Messi’s 28th Birthday By Sharing Previously...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com The depressing fact of the matter is that today is only Lionel Messi’s 28th birthday – a man who has already broken more records and surpassed more...
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Cult Heroes: ‘Rogue Rocket’ Ronnie Rosenthal Scores Hat-Trick To Cement...
By Martin Cloake Once memorably described as “a rogue rocket waiting to be aborted by mission control” by The Guardian’s David Lacey, Ronnie Rosenthal twice achieved cult status at Tottenham Hotspur....
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Random Great Goals: Oktay Derelioglu Single-Handedly Destroys Belgium With An...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com The names of several of the last great Turkey squad of the late 90’s will forever be laser-etched in our memory: Hakan Sukur, Emre Belozoglu, Tugay...
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