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Retro Football: Graeme Le Saux Models Exquisite Blackburn Rovers Leather...
Embed from Getty Images Blackburn Rovers were on a bit of a roll heading into the 1994/95 season after considerable investment had seen the club win promotion from Division One in 1991/92 before...
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Retro Football: George Best Releases ‘Shape Up & Dance’ Aerobics LP With...
Come the mid-Eighties, the great George Best was 38-years-old, bedraggled and very much in the very final throes of his professional football career. Bankrupt, mired in alcoholism and increasingly...
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Retro Football: Flamengo Play-Off Against Atletico Mineiro On Most Nauseating...
Image: Tadeu Vianna After Flamengo and Atletico Mineiro finished level on points in the 1981 Copa Libertadores group stage, it went down to the head-to-head record between the two sides as to which...
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‘The Surgeon Said It Could’ve Been Fatal’– Iosif Rotariu, Victim Of Infamous...
Embed from Getty Images To this very day, Graeme Souness’ horrendous ‘tackle’ on Steaua Bucharest midfielder Iosif Rotariu endures as one of the worst, most grievously deliberate hatchet jobs the game...
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Forgotten Classic: Cristiano Ronaldo Shows Off For 45 Minutes Straight As Man...
Embed from Getty Images With Manchester United celebrating the 50th anniversary of their involvement in UEFA competition and the continent of Europe in general celebrating the 50th anniversary of the...
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Retro Football: Tennis Behemoth Goran Ivanisevic Scores Impressively Dainty...
Embed from Getty Images As you may recall, Goran Ivanisevic was a bit of a dab hand at tennis in his day, during the late 1990s and early 00s. The 6ft 4in Croatian helped pioneer the aggro power-serve...
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Comedy Classics: Peter Cook As Football Manager Alan Latchley, In...
‘It’s all about motivation!’ – Peter Cook as former Scunthorpe and Aston Villa and manager Alan Latchley If you fancy a chortle, then we heartily suggest giving this football-themed gem from Peter...
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Football Comedy Classics: Hale & Pace Present ‘Sid Of The Sunday League’ (Video)
Image: BBC Comedy Quaffing 15 pints the night before, kicked out of the boozer at 5:30am, four hours sleep in a skip, hungover into whirling oblivion for kick-off? Let’s face it, we all know (or have...
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Football Art: Remembering Derby County Goalkeeper Stephen Bywater’s...
Embed from Getty Images Stephen Bywater was and continues to be a fairly unassuming goalkeeper, with the nearest he flirted to notoriety being a smattering of botched clearances – oh, and getting a...
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Football Comedy Classics: Danny Baker & Danny Kelly In Stitches Over...
Embed from Getty Images Duncan Ferguson in his Dundee United days (1991). Please enjoy responsibly When it comes to football phone-ins, Pies generally can’t abide them. This is due to the simple...
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On This Day In 2015: Mr Liverpool Steven Gerrard Sees Red Just 38 Seconds...
Embed from Getty Images Today marks the fourth anniversary of the final competitive appearance Steven Gerrard made against Manchester United in his long and storied professional career, at Anfield on...
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Classic Football Adverts: Trevor Brooking Teams Up With Morecambe & Wise To...
Embed from Getty Images Shortly before everything went belly-up in 1983, the nascent computer game industry was enjoying something of a boom in the early Eighties, with Atari at the very vanguard. To...
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Football Comedy Classics: Mel Smith & Griff Rhys Jones Read Out The...
In which comedy duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones take us on a compact tour of provincial England via the classified football results… A little harsh on Hereford perhaps – the cathedral is very...
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Retro Football: Arsenal Fly Out To Dubai To Play Mid-Season Friendly Against...
Embed from Getty Images With domestic football on the back-burner for a fortnight, Arsenal are currently out in Dubai where they will play a mid-season friendly against Al-Nasr because money. While...
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Football Comedy Classics: Robbie Savage Angrily Denies Buying Seven Pairs Of...
Embed from Getty Images Following in the footsteps of ‘Gordon’s Wooden Bow Tie‘ comes another true classic of the football-phone-in-gone-delightfully-awry genre. Here we join Mark ‘Chappers’ Chapman...
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Retro Football: Liverpool Hero Ian Rush Signs For Everton In Classic Shoot...
Embed from Getty Images Sadly, things have become a bit played out when it comes to football and April Fool’s gags in the social media age. It’s tougher than ever to get one over on an increasingly...
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Football Comedy Classics: Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise Play For Laughs As...
Another football-themed comedy classic from the vault here, with Morecambe and Wise taking on the role of table footballers, or Foosballers if you’d (quite wrongly) prefer. Eric plays the grizzled...
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Classic Hatchet Jobs: Teddy Sheringham Absolutely Nobbles Gordon Ramsey...
Embed from Getty Images It’s Teddy Sheringham’s 52nd birthday today so to celebrate Pies thought we’d revisit the Shezzler’s finest career achievement. No, not the two goals against Holland. No, not...
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Retro Snapshot: Nolberto Solano Becomes Proud Recipient Of Mike Dean’s First...
‘Twas April 2001, Newcastle were drawing 0-0 against Ipswich Town at Portman Road and then a hero came along to change both the course of the game, and football as we know it, forever more. That man...
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Classic Football Songs: ‘Joxer Goes To Stuttgart’ By Christy Moore, 1989 (Video)
Embed from Getty Images One of, it not the only popular song to name-check both Tony Cascarino and Niall Quinn, ‘Joxer Goes To Stuttgart’ is tale of a Republic of Ireland fan (Joxer) who travels to...
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