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Friday Flashback: 20 Magnificent Assorted Vintage Football Stickers – Vol #17
By Chris Wright Friday Flashback XVII: The Quickening… You’ve not seen nothing like the Mighty Quinn… We strongly urge you to follow @OldSchoolPanini on the Twitter if laughing heartily at terrible...
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Horror Hair: Steffen Freund’s Monstrous Two-Tone Plait Ponytail, 1996
By Chris Wright 1996 was not a good year for Steffen Freund… There are no words. Actually, we can think of one or two. (Amazingly horrendous spot by the horrendously amazing @JamesMawFFT)...
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Retro Football: 12-Year-Old La Masia Recruit Andres Iniesta Tells TV News He...
By Chris Wright In which a diddy, 12-year-old (we think) Andres Iniesta – a new recruit at Barcelona’s La Masia youth school – innocently tells a Spanish news crew that his dream is to someday play for...
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Shit Suit-A-Likes: Messi’s Ballon d’Or Polka Tux An Homage To Maradona’s...
By Chris Wright A subtle homage to a boyhood hero or simply a classic case of “great minds/feet dress equally as terribly as one another”? (Maradona image via MARCA/thanks to Pies fan ‘Anonymous’ for...
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Snapshot: Ryan Giggs Charted In 20 Years Of Merlin Football Stickers
By Chris Wright This is doing the rounds today and who are we to turn our nose up a viral, especially when it’s this good. Here’s Ryan ‘Dorian Gray’ Giggs as seen through 20 consecutive years of Merlin...
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Friday Flashback: 20 Magnificent Assorted Vintage Football Stickers – Vol #18
By Chris Wright Friday Flashback XVIII: Armed & Fabulous… Once again, beacoup thanks to our pals over at Old School Panini (we heartily recommend you follow them on Twitter @OldSchoolPanini) for...
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‘Teenage Zlatan Ibrahimovic’ Documentary – What Better Way To Spend 48...
By Chris Wright A pal of Pies’ sent this over earlier this afternoon: a documentary charting the teenage Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s breakthrough season in the Swedish second tier with Malmo in the aftermath...
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Friday Flashback: 20 Magnificent Assorted Vintage Football Stickers – Vol #19
By Chris Wright Friday Flashback XIX: Red, White & Blonde… Robbie? Is that you? Once again, many thanks to our pals over at Old School Panini (we heartily recommend you follow them on Twitter...
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Retro Snapshot: Eric Cantona Steps Out In Phenomenal Winter Jacket, 1995
By Chris Wright Just stumbled across this. Drink it in… (Photo: PA Archive/Dave Kendall)
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Football GIF: Congo ‘Bum Bounce’ Keeper Rendered In Glorious 8-Bit!
By Chris Wright There are few finer sights than DR Congo ‘keeper Muteba Kidiaba in 8-bit… The real thing… Via the absolutely brilliant 8-Bit Football.
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Top 10 Football Transfer U-Turns, Close Shaves & Last-Minute Changes Of Heart
By Chris Wright With reports today that Montpellier defender Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa may have dodged his medical at Newcastle (UPDATE: due to bad weather it would appear!) and looks like becoming the second...
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Friday Flashback: Special Random 1990s Premier League Football Sticker Quiz...
By Chris Wright It’s the 20th edition of the Friday Flashback so we thought we’d mark the occasion by putting on a bit of a buffet, opening a 2lr bottle of Tizer and having a bit of a knees-up – by...
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Football Boots We Have Loved: Patrick Juventus
By Chris Wright This ‘ere be ‘Football Boots We Have Loved’, in which we have a look back at some of the football boots which have tugged on our heartstrings down through the years. In a sport which...
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Friday Flashback: 20 Magnificent Assorted Vintage Football Stickers – Vol #21
By Chris Wright Friday Flashback XXI: The Secret Of The Ooze… You can see where Hayley got here good looks… Friday Flashback Volume #1 Friday Flashback Volume #2 Friday Flashback Volume #3 Friday...
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Graeme Le Saux Attempts To Recreate 1995 Super Looper Goal Against Brazil...
By Chris Wright This is great: Ahead of the Brazil friendly at Wembley next week, former England left-back Graeme Le Socks, now 44, attempts to recreate his famous looping volley against La Selecao in...
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10 Brilliant Classic England vs Brazil Moments To Get Your Juices Flowing
By Chris Wright Just to get the juices flowing ahead of tonight’s England-Brazil friendly at Wembley tonight (ronaldinho’s confirmed to be starting, we haven’t been this excited about an international...
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Royal Mail Celebrate FA’s 150th Anniversary With Special ‘Football Heroes’...
By Chris Wright The Royal Mail are marking the Football Association’s 150th anniversary by issuing a special set of commemorative stamps featuring 11 of the British game’s most revered players as...
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Retro Football: Chester’s Brynley Jones Scores Freakish Goal After One-Two...
By Chris Wright Allow us to take you back in time to 1981 where, as captured by the Anglia TV cameras at Layer Road, Chester’s welsh midfield harrier Brynley Jones scores a magnificently freakish goal...
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Friday Flashback: 20 Magnificent Assorted Vintage Football Stickers – Vol #22
By Chris Wright Friday Flashback XXII: Pig In The City… Friday Flashback Volume #1 Friday Flashback Volume #2 Friday Flashback Volume #3 Friday Flashback Volume #4 Friday Flashback Volume #5 Friday...
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Retro Football: 35 Years Of Soccer Computer Games Charted In One Brilliant Video
By Chris Wright What we have here is one of them there video compendiums of just about every single football computer game made in the last 35 years; from 1978′s imaginatively titled ‘Football’ on the...
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