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On This Day In 2001: David Beckham Rescues England With Last-Ditch Freekick...
Remember when, with immediate effect, David Beckham erased the memory of 92 shoddy minutes of tripe by sticking his 93rd-minute freekick past the Greece goalkeeper to send England to the World Cup?...
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Retro Football: Here’s The £35-Per-Week Contract Manchester United Offered...
Pat Dunne in action for Manchester United (Photo: Popperfoto/Getty Images) An image has surfaced on Reddit of what is purported to be the very contract that Manchester United offered to goalkeeper Pat...
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The ‘Giant Toilet’ That George Best Built: Retrotastic Look Around Man Utd...
Back in 1969, aged 23 and at the peak of his celebrity, Manchester United star George Best decided to shovel around £35,000 into building his ‘dream house’ in Bramhall, near Stockport, Greater...
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Retro Football Songs: Phil Collins And Genesis Sing Loving Ode To ‘Match Of...
The year is 1977 and, three years after the departure of Peter Gabriel, Genesis are gradually beginning to morph from pastoral prog-rockers into the sleek, pop-veneered behemoth they would eventually...
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Football Tat Of Yesteryear: Liverpool Offer Fans ‘Limited Edition Team...
“I’ve ordered us a pair each lads. They’re in the post!” Culminating in a 2-1 defeat against Aston Villa, Liverpool muddled through a fairly average season in 1993/94, finishing way down in 8th place...
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RIP Carlos Alberto Torres – 14 Fantastic Photos Of Brazil’s Legendary Flying...
Tuesday evening brought with it the sad news that Carlos Alberto, captain of Brazil’s all-conquering 1970 World Cup team, passed away at the age of 72. As well as scoring one of the most iconic goals...
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Retro Football: Blackburn Teammates David Batty And Graeme Le Saux Have A...
Before Leicester City stormed the grand UEFA citadel, you have to go right back to 1995 for the last time a “small” Premier League side found their way into the Champions League. Thankfully, reigning...
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The Black-And-White Years: 15 Brilliant Vintage Photos Of England’s Age Auld...
In deepest, darkest November of 1872, England played Scotland in the first ever official international football match at the Hamilton Crescent cricket ground in Partick. A crowd of 4,000 spectators...
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Retro Football: Uri Geller Claims To Move Ball As Gary McAllister Misses...
It was the 15th of June, 1996, and England were playing Scotland at Wembley in their second group match of the European Championships. As you may remember, the host nation went on to win 2-0 on the...
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10 Players Who Have Scored One Goal In Just One Appearance For England
Plenty of perfectly decent players have only managed to score only once for England over the years, with the likes of Andy Cole, David Hirst, Rodney Marsh, Alan Mullery, Stan Bowles and Carlton Palmer...
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Reports: Newcastle United ‘Hold Talks’ Over Return Of Iconic 1990s Shirt Sponsor
Fantastic news for anybody permanently living in the past – i.e, all Newcastle fans – with the word on the wire being that the club are “in talks” with Newcastle Brown Ale to reinstate the brewery as...
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Retro Football: ‘Table Of Shame’ Shows Ticket Prices For Inaugural Premier...
The BBC have once again published the results of their annual ‘Price of Football’ study, which largely serves to prove that periodically raffling off visceral organs is the only way most fans can...
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Retro Football: Hideously Ugly Goalmouth Scramble Sees Man City Rescue...
Paul Lake of Manchester City (Photo: MEN) There were almost two full divisions between the sides when Man City travelled up to Bloomfield Road for an FA Cup fourth round tie against Blackpool in...
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Ali Dia: Journalist Successfully Manages To Track Down Elusive Cult Hero, 20...
Despite only ever playing less than an hour of top flight football, there can be no doubt that Ali Dia is a Premier League legend in the truest sense of the word. For the uninitiated (presuming there...
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Retro Football: 19-Year-Old Steven Gerrard Scores His Very First Goal For...
Having made his senior debut almost exactly a year previous, 19-year-old Steven Gerrard finally got off the mark for Liverpool in a 4-1 thrashing of bottom side Sheffield Wednesday in December of...
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Presenting The Finest Rene Higuita ‘Scorpion Kick’ Fancy Dress Costume You’re...
Sit tight, dear friends, for you are about to witness what is undoubtedly the finest example of a Rene Higuita fancy dress costume ever conceived and concocted by the mind of man. The tip-off came...
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15 Smashing Vintage Photos Of The Young Terry Venables
On the day of his 73rd birthday, Pies thought we’d pay homage to one of the most charismatic personalities in English football’s grand lineage. As such, here’s 15 smashing archive photos of Terry...
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Retro Football: Graeme Souness Resists The Urge To Punch Jimmy Case In The...
Some 39 years ago this month, Liverpool signed a triumvirate of Scottish players who each became intrinsic members of their all-conquering team of the 1980s. A combustible cocktail of flair, fortitude...
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Retro Football: Original Artist’s Plans For Bolton’s Reebok Stadium Were...
Burnden Park, as was (Photo: Legendary Football Grounds) The year was 1994, and upwardly mobile Bolton Wanderers were preparing to up sticks and leave Burnden Park, their home for the past 100 years,...
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Muckers: Brilliant Image Surfaces Of Burnley Teammates Robbie Brady And Jeff...
Over the course of the season so far, Burnley’s dabbling in the transfer market has finally brought together two of football’s oldest muckers reunited at Turf Moor. Indeed, Burnley broke their...
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