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Retro football: Wonderful archive of 1950s and 60s Talbot photos unearthed
Today’s Guardian features an ace gallery of British football photos from the Fifties and Sixties. The Guardian writes: The series of rare footballing images were captured by Blackburn-based father and...
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Retro Football: Ernie Hunt scores for Coventry with the ‘donkey kick’
Almost 50 years ago to the day, at Highfield Road, Coventry forward Ernie Hunt (pictured, below) scored against then-champions Everton with what was to become known as the ‘donkey kick’. Willie Carr...
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On this day in 1993: Graham Taylor’s England were mugged in Rotterdam
It’s no disgrace to lose 2-0 away to a Dutch side containing Ronald Koeman, the De Boer brothers, Frank Rijkaard, Marc Overmars and Dennis Bergkamp. But, speaking as an England fan, the manner of this...
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On this day in 1996: Benito Carbone signed for Sheffield Wednesday and was...
Twenty-four years ago today, Sheffield Wednesday signed Italian forward Benito Carbone from Inter. The fee was £3m. Amazingly, he stayed in Yorkshire rather than immediately getting on a plane back to...
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On this day in 1991: David Rocastle chipped Peter Schmeichel from long range
Some context: almost exactly one year before the late, great David Rocastle scored this marvellous goal, Arsenal beat United 1-0 at Old Trafford in a game that featured a mass brawl midway through the...
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On this day in 2010: Gareth Bale scored a hat-trick at Inter
What many people forget about this Champions League match is that Spurs lost. They were 4-1 down to Rafa Benitez’s Inter (European champions the previous season, under Jose Mourinho) after 90 minutes,...
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Remember when: Johan Cruyff’s Barcelona thrashed Real Madrid 5-0 in the Clasico
Real have just beaten Barcelona 3-1 in a vacant Bernabeu, but we don’t care about that. We care about this… January 1994. The Nou Camp is bouncing. And there’s Romario in that beautiful Kappa...
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On this day in 1991: Brian McClair scored one of the scrappiest goals ever,...
Saturday 26th October 1991. It’s an overcast afternoon at Hillsborough, and Man Utd’s stalwart Scot Brian McClair finishes off an attacking move of such grace and beauty, you could weep. No wonder...
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On this day in 1999: Gabriel Batistuta showed Arsenal his finishing power
It’s Wednesday 27th October 1999 and Fiorentina stun Arsenal with a classic Batigol: Batistuta, what a striker he was. This half-chance was pretty much his first sight of goal all game, and he wasn’t...
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On this day in 1999: Inter thrashed Lecce 6-0 and Alvaro Recoba scored a golazo
Inter lit up a grey November afternoon in Milan with a sumptuous performance against poor Lecce. Their six goals came from six different players, three with the right foot, three with the left. In...
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Remember when Man Utd defender Paul McGrath posed with the FA Cup trophy and...
Happy birthday to Paul McGrath, born on 4th December 1959 in Ealing, London. McGrath would go on to become one of Ireland and Man Utd’s finest centre-backs, a player so good he was allowed to skip...
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The Umbro x New Order ‘World In Motion’ collaboration is great
Here’s all the evidence you need that it is great: Well done, Umbro. Because the kits are so ace (the sky blue one especially is a beaut), and limited edition, you might have a very hard time finding...
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Cool Cats & Red Devils – Calling All Manchester United and Manchester City fans
Iain S P Reid’s fantastic photos of Manchester United and Manchester City fans in the 1970s are going to be in a new book from Flashbak. You can back Cool Cats & Red Devils at the Kickstarter....
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