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Retro Football: Rough, Tough Barcelona Defender Ronald Koeman Dresses Up As...
Embed from Getty Images Long before he was Everton’s latest former manager, Ronald Koeman was a damn fine, imposing centre back with skin pale as milk and hair of the finest spun sunlight. During his...
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Classic Football Adverts: Alan Shearer Is Wooden As You Like In Timeless...
“Woor’ll ‘ave a fillet-oo-fish an a box of chickn dippahs an meerk it snappy lad…” With all the will in the world, with his furrowed brow and voice less melodious than a dot-matrix printer, Alan...
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Retro Football: Fondly Remembering The Halcyon Days Of The Coca Cola Cup And...
Embed from Getty Images The League Cup has bounced from sponsor to sponsor over the years, with Littlewoods, Rumbelows, Worthington’s, Carling, Capital One and even the national Milk Marketing Board...
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On This Day In 2009: Halloween Sees New Record Set For Most Red Cards On...
Embed from Getty Images The dark spirits definitely did their evil bidding in the Premier League on Halloween back in 2009: the very day that saw a new record set for the most red cards in one single...
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Classic Football Adverts: Reebok Spluff £3m To Employ Cavalcade Of Nineties...
While their presence in the football realm has waned since, Reebok were a big player on the scene throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, with Ryan Giggs, Dennis Bergkamp and Thierry Henry just three...
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Retro Football: Sir Matt Busby Discusses Brian Clough And George Best, Among...
Embed from Getty Images Plucked from the BBC Archives, here’s a snippet of Sir Matt Busby’s appearance on the Parkinson chat show in 1973. Busby had retired as Manchester United manager and from...
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Classic Football Adverts: Tony Adams Acts His Wooden Backside Off After Being...
Embed from Getty Images As ever with a lucrative World Cup on the horizon, the great and the good of the advertising realm began shoehorning England players into their commercials to help shill their...
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Classic WWII Ordnance Hi-Jinks: Brentford ‘Keeper Chic Brodie Finds Hand...
Embed from Getty Images Charles ‘Chic’ Brodie was no doubt a perfectly serviceable goalkeeper in his day, we couldn’t possibly comment to the counter, but alas his 21-year professional career is...
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On This Day In 2012: Zlatan Ibrahimovic Tears Joe Hart Asunder With...
Embed from Getty Images Today marks the fifth anniversary of the fateful night that Zlatan Ibrahimovic trampled roughshod over England, scoring all four goals in a mountainous performance at the...
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Juventus Fans Vote Alessandro Del Piero’s ‘Impossible Volley’ Against...
Embed from Getty Images As part of their ongoing 120th anniversary celebrations, Juventus tasked their fans with voting for what they believe to be the greatest goal ever scored in the Bianconeri...
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Heaven Is Five Uninterrupted Minutes Of Diego Maradona Scoring Loads Of...
Embed from Getty Images Hey, you kids ever heard of Diego Maradona? Back in the 1970s and 80s, he was kind of like Lionel Messi – if Lionel Messi had a predilection for acting the giddy goat and...
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Retro Football: Norwich Poacher Tim Sherwood Skies Open Goal From Six Yards...
Photo: Nigel French (via Sporting Heroes) He may possess the managerial acumen of a Maris Piper, but Tim Sherwood was a perfectly decent central midfielder in his day – as his three England caps duly...
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Brazil: Roberto Carlos Admits His Famous ‘Banana’ Freekick Against France In...
Embed from Getty Images Like arriving at the stark realisation that the middle-aged man doling out Kinder Eggs and cuddles in the back of his boarded up Transit van probably wasn’t the Easter Bunny...
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Classic Football Adverts: Ryan Giggs Discovers His Evil Doppelganger In...
Image: The Ad Show Ryan Giggs did a fair few decent adverts for Reebok (and a fair few naff ones for Quorn) in the mid-1990s, with his sponsors working wonders with the Manchester United winger’s...
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Classic Football Adverts: Ian Wright Feels Like Chicken Tonight, Chicken...
By Jack Beresford (@JackBeresford89) Embed from Getty Images The late 1990s were a strange time for Ian Wright. Though he cut an increasingly peripheral figure at his beloved Arsenal, and was...
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Retro Football: Young Nigel Clough Laughs At His Dad’s Brighton Team Losing...
Embed from Getty Images As he was prone to do throughout his career, Brian Clough caused a ruckus in November of 1973 when he fell out without absolutely everybody, resigned from his post after six...
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Feyenoord: Teenage Striker Dylan Vente Marks Full Debut With Goal Almost...
Embed from Getty Images The proverbial torch was passed at Feyenoord on Sunday afternoon when 18-year-old forward Dylan Vente scored on his full debut for the Eredivisie club. Vente scored the second...
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Retro Football: Bobby Robson’s England Hammer Non-League Aylesbury United In...
Embed from Getty Images In his infinite, delightfully discombobulated wisdom, Bobby Robson hatched a foolproof plan in the weeks running up to the 1988 European Championships in order to prepare his...
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Classic Moments: MSV Duisburg Coach Norbert Meier Goes Down Like Ton Of...
Embed from Getty Images Bayer Leverkusen coach Heiko Herrlich’s am-dram dive against Borussia Monchengladbach may well have been laughably risible, but it’s not entirely without precedent in German...
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The Black And White Years: 10 Festive Photos Of Footballers Wassailing At...
Generally speaking, these days you only really tend to hear about club Christmas parties as and when they get called off by disgruntled managers who think that sapping yet more morale out their...
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