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The Euro Story: France Do The Double At Euro 2000, Portugal Implode And...
The 11th European Championships marked another revolutionary first as Belgium and the Netherlands stepped up to the plate as co-hosts. The competition was again contested by 16 nations and they...
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15 Great, Sun-Baked Photos Of Footballers On Holiday
What with it being the hottest day of the year so far and everything, Pies thought we’d capitalise on the furore by chucking a 15-strong compendium of sun-baked footballers your way. Don’t say we...
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Liverpool: Jurgen Klopp Plugs Pre-Season Reunion With Huddersfield Coach...
Liverpool’s pre-season friendly against Huddersfield Town on Wednesday night will see Jurgen Klopp pitted against his old chum, ex-Mainz teammate and former assistant at Dortmund, David Wagner, for...
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Better Late Than Never: Lazio Set To Be Awarded The 1914/15 Italian...
The Lazio team of 1914/15 (Photo via JASN) Lazio could wind up winning their third Italian championship if an investigation into the outcome of the 1914/15 season finds in their favour. The Italian...
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Classic Klinsmann: Key Moments In Jurgen’s Time At Tottenham, 22 Years On...
Photo: Press Association When Jurgen Klinsmann signed for Tottenham 22 years ago today, it was a genuinely jaw-dropping moment. With the Premier League still in its infancy, top tier signings were not...
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Man Utd: Ryan Giggs Once Tore A Strip Off Young Cristiano Ronaldo For...
It would appear that things got a little fractious between Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo on the odd occasion at Manchester United, specifically during the latter’s early years at Old Trafford....
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Ipswich vs Tranmere: Come All Ye Faithful And Marvel At This Mesmerisingly...
They don’t make ’em like that any more There can be nothing finer in this world that a satisfyingly crap passage of 90’s football and the example we’ve stumbled across today is one of the very...
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Retro Football: Newspaper Baulks At The ‘Crazy’ Price Of Match Tickets In...
Arsenal’s Highbury Stadium, circa 1980 The month was July. The year was 1980. Dear old Margaret Thatcher was busy slowly disassembling the country, unemployment hit the two million mark in the UK for...
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Retro Football: EA Sports Write Letter To ‘Football Manager’ Designers To...
Football Manager: Alienator of spouses, eater of social lives Back in the early 1990s, EA Sports were approached by the creators of the ‘Football Manager’ series and asked if they had any interest in...
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Retro Football: Here’s Deadline Day Howler Monkey Jim White Reporting On A...
“ACCORDING TO SKY SOURCES, I HAVE A PARASITE INFESTATION” On this day of all days, it’s worth remembering that Jim White is not a deafening allegorical hologram sent from the future to warn us of the...
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Retro Football: Dean Saunders Remembers Brian Clough’s Unorthodox Attempt To...
Here’s a cracking little yarn from Dean Saunders about the time Brian Clough attempted to prise him away from Derby County in the summer of 1991. Saunders was hot property having scored 17 goals...
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On This Day In 1888: Preston The Big Winners As First Ever Football League...
A snapshot of football in 1888, via an engraving called ‘The Association Game’ On this very day 128 years ago, the world’s very first set of football league results were registered after the...
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Retro Football: Graham Taylor Politely Enquires As To Whether England Are...
On the occasion of his 72nd birthday, Pies thought we’d offer a humble congratulatory salute to one of our favourite footballing nice guys, the one and only Graham Taylor. Reluctant to swear as if his...
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Retro Football: Andy Cole Poses With AK-47 And Heavy Artillery To Shill For...
Andy Cole first cultivated his reputation as a Premier League hotshot at Newcastle United, where he scored 69 goals in 86 appearances over the course of his two seasons. Given his outstanding...
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The Outtakes From Peter Brackley’s Pro Evolution Soccer 2 Commentary Are...
For many English football fans of a certain vintage, Peter Brackley’s voice is synonymous with one thing and one thing only: Football Italia. However, Channel 4’s calcio commentator also lent his...
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Top 10 Classic Admiral Football Kits Of Yesteryear (Photos)
After watching ‘Get Shirty‘ – a great little ITV documentary about Admiral’s rise from an obscure Midlands underwear outlet to one of the biggest names in sportswear – last night, we though it would...
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On This Day In 1995: Leeds Legend Tony Yeboah Smacks One In Off The Wimbledon...
Depressing as it may be, it’s 21 years to the day that Tony Yeboah thrust his way into Premier League immortality by rattling one in off the Selhurst Park crossbar with his ‘weaker’ foot. Just a few...
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The Black-And-White Years: 10 Corking Vintage Photos Of Dogs At Football Matches
Barring the odd canine pitch invasion now and again, the sight of dogs in attendance at professional football matches is largely a thing of the past due to health and safety regulations, etc, etc....
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Retro Football: Marinho Celebrates His Only Goal For Brazil With Super Funky...
Marinho and a photo of himself, bottom left, as part of the 1986 Brazil team (Photo: O Curioso) There was a time when Mario Jose dos Reis Emiliano (‘Marinho’ to his friends) was considered one of the...
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Classic Moments: An Irate Neil Warnock Tears Into Sheffield United Defenders...
To mark his re-entry into the management pool at Cardiff City, we thought we’d delve into Neil Warnock’s back catalogue. Specifically, we’re talking about the time he well and truly tore a strip off...
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