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Corinthians Pay Tribute To Italian Chums Torino With Cracking New ‘Granata’...
Corinthians have released a lovely new retro shirt which features both the club crest and colours of Torino in loving homage to the Brazilian side’s oldest international football adversaries. Rendered...
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On This Day In 1872: Scotland Play England In The First Ever International...
Football’s international tradition began in front of 4,000 spectators at the West Of Scotland Cricket Ground in Hamilton Crescent, Partick on 30th November 1872. Those 4,000 spectators paid a shilling...
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Horror Hair: Jamie Vardy And His Grotty Looking Cornrows, Circa 2013 (Photo)
Here at Pies, we feel it’s our duty to continually remind people that, amid the ever-escalating hype and adoration surrounding him, Jamie Vardy was found guilty of a gross cultural misdemeanour not so...
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On This Day In 1959: Liverpool Appoint Their New Manager, Mr William ‘Bill’...
Shankly and the rest of Liverpool’s ‘Boot Room Boys’ (L-R): Bob Paisley, Ronnie Moran, Joe Fagan and Reuben Bennett, 1960 By the end of 1959, Liverpool Football Club were languishing in the old Second...
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On This Day In 1907: Professional Footballers Decide There Is Power In A Union
Billy ‘The Whiz” Meredith of Manchester United in action during the first ever FA Charity Shield match against QPR, 1908 On 2nd December 1907, Manchester United players Billy Meredith (pictured above)...
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On This Day In 1963: Manchester United Bring About Beginning Of The End For...
Tottenham players listen to manager Bill Nicholson during a break in pre-season training, August 1963 In football, as in life, all things must pass. Even for great sides, the glory years must come to...
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On This Day In 1997: The Passing Of A True Great As Leeds United Legend Billy...
View image | gettyimages.com Aged just 54 years old, Billy Bremner, one of the giants of the game, died in hospital after contracting pneumonia. Bremner joined Leeds in 1959 when he was 18 and played...
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On This Day In 2000: Ledley King Scores The Fastest Goal In Premier League...
When Tottenham travelled up to Valley Parade to take on Bradford City in 2000, the then 20-year-old Ledley King was making a name for himself as a classy centre-half. Little did he know that the day...
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On This Day In 1960: Newcastle Rack Up Big Numbers With 5-5 Draw Against West...
Newcastle team circa 1960, including Bob Stokoe (back, 3rd left) Ivor Allchurch (front, 2nd left) Len White (front row (c) and Joe Harvey (front, 2nd right) (Photo by Getty Images) It wasn’t the...
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On This Day In 1962: Tottenham Just About See Off Glasgow Rangers In Epic...
When the FA Cup-winning Tottenham side led by Danny Blanchflower (above) were drawn against Glasgow Rangers in the Cup-Winners Cup, it created a huge ripple of excitement. Spurs were being tipped to...
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On This Day In 1935: Ted Drake Scores All Seven Goals As Arsenal Thump Aston...
It’s safe to say that the majority of the 60,891 crowd that crammed into Villa Park for the visit of Arsenal on this day in 1935 didn’t go away with particularly fond memories of the match, but it...
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On This Day In 1982: Seven Goalscorers And Nine Goals Set An International...
When England played Luxembourg at Wembley in the third game of their Euro 1984 qualifying campaign the horribly mismatched rampage that ensued sent international scoring records a-tumbling. The hosts...
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On This Day In 2006: Frank Lampard Officially Becomes Chelsea’s Deadliest...
When Frank Lampard hit the equaliser for Chelsea against Everton in the 80th minute at Goodison Park on the 16th December 2006, he bettered a record previously held by Dennis Wise. It was his 77th...
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On This Day In 2001: Newcastle United End 30-Game London Hoodoo By Beating...
Since last leaving the capital with something to show for their troubles in 1997, by the time their game against Arsenal came around in December of 2001 it had been a whopping 30 matches since...
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On This Day In 1957: Christmas Miracle At The Valley As Charlton Come From...
Charlton captain Derek Ufton strides out onto the pitch, 1957 Few footballing fables can match the remarkable story that unfolded at The Valley when Charlton Athletic took on Huddersfield Town in a...
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On This Day In 2007: Nicklas Bendtner Sets New Premier League Record By...
With 16 minutes to go in yet another fiercely-contested North London Derby at the Emirates, Arsene Wenger sent on striker Nicklas Bendtner for midfielder Emmanuel Eboue. Just 1.8 seconds after taking...
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David James Dresses Up As ‘Urban Father Christmas For The 21st Century’ To...
Life is most definitely not good With the world still struggling to find direction in a brave new millennium, 2004 will forever be remembered as the year that mobile phone company LG came forth to...
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Retro Football: First Division Fans Treated To Amazing 66-Goal Christmas...
Jimmy Greaves (centre, no hat) and the rest of the Tottenham lads show us what a top-flight Christmas party looked like in the early 1960s Boxing Day is traditionally a big day for football, and the...
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On This Day In 2009: Portsmouth Play Arsenal Without A Single Englishman In...
The extent of the effect the Premier League has had on the English game had never been quite so underlined before Portsmouth welcomed Arsenal to Fratton Park on 30 December, 2009. As well as Arsenal’s...
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Retro Football: War Effort Forces BBC To Commentate On ‘Imaginary’ Match As...
Easter Road, seen here on a slightly clearer day The Hibernian-Hearts derby on the very first day of 1940 was truly one for the ages. The finished 6-5 in Hearts favour and was chock full of near...
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