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Nutter: David Batty Once Took Two Of His Severed Fingertips To School For...
Embed from Getty Images It’s no secret that David Batty was regarded as a tough sod during his playing days, never coming remotely near to broaching anything close to a smile while dutifully holding...
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Retro Football: Porto Replace Vitor Baia By Signing Ivica Kralj, Yugoslavian...
Embed from Getty Images After the Premier League coughed up a weekend of these foreign goalkeepers doing these naff foreign punches (c/o Mark Lawrenson), Pies thought we’d pay humble tribute to one of...
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Flawless Technique: Roberto Baggio Rolls One In After Flummoxing Juventus...
Embed from Getty Images If you happen to be a fan of imperious ball control, then boy do we have a treat for you – courtesy of the great Roberto Baggio. Having represented Juventus with esteem for...
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Retro Football: 13-Year-Old Marco Van Basten’s Youth Player Registration Card...
Embed from Getty Images The photo you see above dates from 1983/84 and shows a 19-year-old Marco van Basten of Ajax taking on Johan Cruyff, 37, of Feyenoord during the latter’s final season as a...
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Europa League: Celtic Produce Excellent Comic Book-Inspired Programme For...
Embed from Getty Images Celtic have produced an absolute belter of a programme cover for this Thursday’s Europa League last-32 clash against Zenit St Petersburg. Inspired by classic comic books of...
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The Black-And-White Years: 18 Fabulous Archive Photos Of Garrincha In His Pomp
He may have been born with a crooked left leg and scoliosis of the spine, lost his virginity to a goat at the age of 14 and died a penniless drunk, but Garrincha definitely pulled it together for long...
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Retro Football: Six Glorious Minutes Of Garrincha Shimmying, Feinting And...
Embed from Getty Images Not sure why, but we’re having a bit of a Garrincha day here on Pies, so it’s only right be bring you some moving pictures of the man in motion. A progenitor of what we’d now...
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Retro Football: Newcastle Fans Dress ‘Angel Of The North’ Statue In Giant...
Photo: Chronicle Live Originally denounced as an eyesore by some, The Angel of the North has now been welcoming weary pilgrims back to Gateshead and Newcastle for two decades. Anthony Gormley’s...
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Classic Moments: Lyon ‘Keeper Gregory Coupet Thwarts Rivaldo And Barcelona...
Embed from Getty Images ‘Twas the Year of our Lord and Saviour, 2001, and Lyon travelled to the Camp Nou to face Barcelona in a daunting Champions League group stage tie. It was also the night that...
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Classic Moments: Gary Neville Reaches Orgasmic Climax As Fernando Torres...
Embed from Getty Images Whenever Chelsea come up against Barcelona in the Champions League, certain memories come flooding back: Ronaldinho’s toe poke par excellence in 2005, Andres Iniesta’s stoppage...
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Retro Football: River Plate Send The Great Enzo Francescoli Off Into...
Embed from Getty Images Enzo Francescoli is unquestionably one of the most refined players to have ever graced a football pitch, and yet his name is rarely mentioned in relevant discussions. This may...
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Retro Football: New York Cosmos Submit ‘Final Proposition’ Of $1m Per Year To...
Embed from Getty Images Having retired from international football three years earlier, October 1974 saw the great Pele turn out for Santos for the 662nd and final time in a farewell match against...
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The Black And (Mostly) White Years: 10 More Vintage Photos Of Football Being...
What with the entire country grinding to a halt because of the snow, Pies felt it our duty to warm your cockles with a selection of suitably seasonal football photos plucked from the archives… Embed...
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Retro Football: The Highbury Mural – When Arsenal Really Did Play In Front Of...
Embed from Getty Images It’s an accusation that regularly gets bandied around, but there was a time when Arsenal really were forced to play in front of plastic supporters. The month was August, year...
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Retro Football Adverts: Joe Jordan Replenishes Missing Teeth With Quick Swig...
While you’d be hard-pushed to call Joe Jordan “beautiful” in the conventional sense, there was still a undeniable ragged, brawny charm to the toothless Scotland target man. Indeed, Jordan lost four of...
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Set-Piece Pioneers: Man Utd Pair Ryan Giggs And David Beckham Attempt...
Embed from Getty Images In the first of what we might turn into a semi-regular series on Pies, we examine some of the oddest, most esoteric set-pieces to have ever been unleashed, both in anger and in...
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Retro Football: Helpful Glasgow Rangers Fans Lend Their Large Union Jack To...
Photo: BBC Derby Let’s face it, we’ve all been there: diligently running the line at a football match only for your standard issue fluorescent flag to disassemble itself into its component parts,...
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On This Day In 2002: Teenage Wayne Rooney Takes 10 Minutes To Entrench...
Embed from Getty Images Why, it seems like a lifetime, but 15 years ago this very day, a 16-year-old brute who looked like he was on day release from borstal emerged from the Everton bench and...
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Classic Football Adverts: Eric Cantona Shills For Eurostar In His Own...
Embed from Getty Images At the end of the 1996/97 season, Eric Cantona shocked Manchester United by bringing his professional career to a premature end when he reached the conclusion that, at the age...
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Retro Football: Diego Maradona Turns Out For Tottenham In Ossie Ardiles’...
Embed from Getty Images Seeing Diego Maradona holding a Tottenham shirt aloft at Wembley on Sunday instantly brought memories flooding back for fans of a certain vintage. Of course, Maradona has...
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