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Retro Football: Bayern Munich Goalkeeper Sepp Maier Dabbles In Subtle Art Of...
Embed from Getty Images The great Sepp Maier was and is pretty much untouchable when it comes to German football idolatry. As close to the modern ideal of the lithe superstar goalkeeper as it was...
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First Touch Of The Gods: Three Heavenly Minutes Of Dennis Bergkamp And His...
Embed from Getty Images Dennis Bergkamp was very good at football. He scored lots of memorable goals, won lots of trophies and even forged himself an ice-cold nickname. He was also very good at...
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Retro Football: Kevin Keegan Calms Newcastle Fans Down On Steps Of St James’...
Embed from Getty Images It’s difficult to fathom given the omni-coverage we’re steeped in these days, but 23 years ago this very day, a seismic football transfer went through without so much as a...
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20 Thoroughly Excellent Photos Of The Late Cyrille Regis In His Prime
With the sad passing of Cyrille Regis today, Pies thought it only right that we give the man the retrospective his brilliant career so duly warrants. The dynamic striker spent the best days of his...
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Retro Football: Romario And Edmundo Release Anti-Violence Rap Collaboration...
By Jack Beresford Embed from Getty Images Ex-teammates Romario and Edmundo have harboured an infamously volatile relationship over the years, with the Brazilian pair rarely seeing eye to eye as...
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Classic Moments: Javier Mascherano Scores His One And Only Goal For...
Embed from Getty Images After seven-and-a-half years of faithful service, Javier Mascherano is to leave Barcelona in the coming days and join Hebei Fortune over in the Chinese Super League....
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From The Youtube Vault: Phil Neville’s Wedding Video From 1999 Is Like A...
Embed from Getty Images With his appointment as head coach of the England Women’s team, the internet sleuths out there have been busily digging into Phil Neville’s online past. Unfortunately, this...
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Pies Classics: Mark E Smith Reads The Classified Football Results On BBC...
Embed from Getty Images As you’ve probably heard, Mark E Smith passed away last night at the age of 60. He had not been well. For the uninitiated, Smith was the chronically Mancunian, fag...
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Retro Football: Paul Gascoigne Visits The Animals At Paradise Wildlife Park,...
Paul Gascoigne taking in all the sights, smells and jump-scares that come with a trip to the Paradise Wildlife Park at Broxbourne Zoo in Hertfordshire. During the video, Gazza mentions needing surgery...
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Classic Football Songs: ‘Kicker Conspiracy’ By The Fall, 1983 (Video)
Embed from Getty Images Yet another tribute to the enduring genius of the late Mark E. Smith, we bring you The Fall’s other foray into football (the most renowned arguably being ‘Theme From Sparta...
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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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Classic Football Adverts: Reebok’s Wonderfully Mundane ‘Other Careers’...
As we’ve seen before on Pies, it’s fair to say Reebok gave Nike a serious run for their money during the 1990s when it came to cranking out memorable big-budget football adverts. That said, one of the...
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Retro Football Adverts: George Best Knows Girls Love Mackerel Fillets, 1969...
Embed from Getty Images At the height of his fame, back in the late 1960s, George Best was positively everywhere. The Manchester United forward quickly attained ‘pop star’ status and as such his face...
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Classic Moments: Iker Casillas Pulls Off Gutsy Save To Thwart Arjen Robben...
Embed from Getty Images As you probably well remember, the 2010 World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands was grubby, tense, petulant and nigh-on barbaric at times. Howard Webb did his best to...
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Classic Moments: Nicky Butt Takes Two Minutes To Prove He’s The True...
Embed from Getty Images With all this talk of Cristiano Ronaldo and his supreme overhead kicks, Pies feel it would be utterly remiss of us not to pay ‘umble ‘omage to the ordained grandmaster of the...
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RIP Butch: 30 Fabulous Photos Of Ray Wilkins In His Inimitable Prime
What with the tragic passing of the great Ray Wilkins today, Pies thought we’d do the done thing and go trawling through the photo archives to collate a massive gallery of Butch in his inimitable...
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Retro Football: Extremely Polite Post-Match Conversation Between Alan Shearer...
Image: Sports Channel/BBC Sport It’s little more than a morsel, but the following clip provides a nostalgic snapshot of the cusp-of-the-Premier League football landscape of the early 1990s. Three...
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