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On This Day In 2002: Hakan Sukur Scores The Fastest Goal In World Cup History...
By Martin Cloake View image | gettyimages.com 11 seconds. That’s all it took for Turkey’s all-time top goalscorer Hakan Sukur to score the fastest goal in World Cup history on 29th June 2002. The goal...
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On This Day In 2002: Record-Breaking Brazilians Lift Fifth World Cup Out In...
By Martin Cloake View image | gettyimages.com On this very day in 2002, Brazil won a record-breaking fifth World Cup title by beating Germany 2-0 in front of 69,029 spectators at Yokohama’s...
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Agadoo: Five Football Chants That Owe It All To The Song Once Dubbed ‘The...
By Martin Cloake How’s about you Agadon’t, lads? “Like the school disco you were forced to attend, your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding party, a travelling DJ act based in...
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Mundial Magazine Presents: Toto Schillaci At Italia ’90 – The Flame That...
By Naomi Accardi (Illustration : Davey Blackett, @daveyblackett) 25 years ago, on Saturday 9th June in Rome’s Stadio Olimpico, Italy were 75 minutes into a dour 0-0 against Austria. With the host fans...
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Classic Moments: Luis Suarez Makes ‘The Best Save Of The 2010 World Cup’ (His...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com First of all, apologies are due as this was originally intended to go out as an ‘On This Day’ piece yesterday but yours truly completely bungled it. May...
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On This Day In 1960: Yugoslavia Shock France With Extraordinary Comeback In...
By Martin Cloake View image | gettyimages.com One of the most dramatic matches in international competition history took place on 6th July, 1960, at the Parc des Princes in Paris. The occasion was the...
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Classic Moments: Phil Brown Can’t Help But Wonder If Andrea Pirlo Is...
By Chris Wright With Andrea Pirlo finally leaving Italian football for pastures new yesterday, Pies’ thoughts inevitably immediately turned to Phil Brown. Why? While discussing Pirlo’s apparent...
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On This Day In 1957: Pelé Makes His Debut On The World Stage, Aged Just 16
By Martin Cloake View image | gettyimages.com A lifetime of record-breaking began on 7th July 1957 when Edson Arantes do Nascimento made his international debut for Brazil against Argentina, aged just...
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Did You Know? 5 Terrific Trivia Titbits About Pelé
By Martin Cloake View image | gettyimages.com As we previously mentioned, today marks 58 years since Pele, who many still consider the greatest footballer to ever play the game, made his international...
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On This Day In 2001: €76m Galactico Zinedine Zidane Signs For Real Madrid
By Martin Cloake View image | gettyimages.com At the time, he was the undisputed best player in the world – and for a world record €76million fee, Real Madrid secured the services of Zinedine Zidane...
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Thierry Henry Wanders Through Premier League History In Cracking New Sky...
By Chris Wright It’s not often we find ourselves complimenting Sky Sports but their new advert for their upcoming 2015/16 Premier League coverage really is deserving of praise. The commercial has...
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Football Art: Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar Et Al Re-Imagined As Ye Olde Time...
By Chris Wright The scallywags over at Paladar Negro have re-imagined the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and a few more star names from either side of the El Clasico divide as...
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Retro Football: The Incredible Team Sheets For Sir Stanley Matthews’ Farewell...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com After 19 years of faithful service split across two stints, 28th April, 1965 saw Stoke City lay on an extraordinary extravaganza of a farewell testimonial...
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David Busst Shows Off His Scars 19 Years After Suffering Horrific Broken Leg...
By Chris Wright View image | gettyimages.com In one of football’s most famous cases of nominative determinism, David Busst splintered his leg while playing for Coventry against Manchester United at...
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Shit Football Kits Of Yesteryear: Chesterfield Town’s Patriotic ‘Union Jack’...
By Chris Wright Hunker down children, for you have an incredibly tenuous introduction coming your way. Here we go… Just ten short years after the town itself became the first in England to be wholly...
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On This Day In 1999: Thierry Henry Signs For Arsenal – Was He Arsene Wenger’s...
Just eight months after joining Juventus from Monaco, Thierry Henry signed for Arsenal 16 years ago today. It didn’t prove to be a bad deal in hindsight. Henry went on to become the Gunners’ record...
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On This Day In 1952: The Original Red Army Kicks Off In Helsinki
You can trace the origins of football back to the year 476 BC and a sport called ‘cuju’ in China – which translates roughly as “kick the ball with foot”. In those days teams of up to 16 players would...
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On This Day In 1970: At Boothferry Park, The Penalty Shootout Arrives In...
The penalty shootout: My, hasn’t it served us well over the years? Older readers may remember Watneys as a particularly pisspoor beer, and possibly also as the sponsors of one of the silliest...
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On This Day In 1977: Legendary Goalkeeper Pat Jennings Makes The Daring Move...
For many Tottenham fans, Pat Jennings remains the best goalkeeper the club has ever had. So imagine the pain and the shock when, following the Lilywhites’ relegation in 1976/77, the club sold Jennings...
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On This Day In 1969: Welcome To The World, Mr Paul Lambert
Fame and fortune can be such fickle companions, and so today we reflect on said fickleness as we consider the life and times of Paul Lambert, who was born 46 years ago this very day in Glasgow. In...
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