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Retro Football: Cracking Vintage Advert For Sir Tom Finney’s Plumbing...
By Chris Wright World class spot from the dapper chaps over at @SavileRogue here, with this football-themed advert for the late Sir Tom Finney’s plumbing business… Finney, who sadly passed away at the...
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Retro Snapshot: Mesut Ozil And Manuel Neuer In The Same School Football Team,...
By Chris Wright There is a line of thought being peddled today that Manuel Neuer was able to swat away Mesut Ozil’s penalty at the Emirates last night with such ease as the pair of childhood friends...
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20 More Beautiful Vintage Photos Of Goalkeepers In Flight
By Chris Wright Given that it’s been a bit of a slow, pre-Champions League kind of day in the football world today, we’ve had a troll back through the Pies archives in search of a bit of inspiration...
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24 Cracking Photos Of Arsene Wenger’s First Year In Charge Of Arsenal
By Chris Wright On the eve of his 1,000th game in charge of Arsenal (against Chelsea next weekend), we thought we’d have a little look at how Arsene Wenger faired in his very first year at Highbury...
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Retro Football: Feel Irie With Ruud Gullit’s Reggae Classic ‘Not The Dancing...
By Chris Wright Did you know that, at the peak of his powers, Ruud Gullit indulged in his love of reggae and released a kind of calypso-tinged, Billy Ocean-esque single called “Not The Dancing Kind”...
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Ray Parlour Reveals Kolo Toure Sealed His Arsenal Move By Two-Footing Henry,...
By Chris Wright “He’s a WRECKING MACHINE!!!” Here we have The Romford Pele regaling TalkSPORT with an anecdote about fellow ex-Arsenal Invincible Kolo Toure’s trial with the club in late 2001, in...
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Snapshot: L’Equipe Front Cover Features Slightly Spooky Image Of Arsene...
By Chris Wright We’ve no idea if it’s a re-touched photo or a mock-up or some kind but the latest cover of L’Equipe features an image of Arsene Wenger as a child – looking very dapper, if not...
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Retro Football: Des Lynam And The Classic ‘Grandstand Fight’ April Fools Gag,...
By Chris Wright Well, “retro football-ish”, at least. Originally aired on April 1st, 1989: here’s the classic “Grandstand Fight” April Fools sketch which saw a staged scuffle break out in the newsroom...
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On This Day, Four Years Ago: Chris Kamara Completely Misses Red Card At...
By Chris Wright It seems like it were but yesterday, but today marks the fourth anniversary of the seismic shift in Chris Kamara’s broadcasting (and we use the term in the lightest possible sense)...
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Top 5 Remarkable Europa League Second-Leg Comebacks
By Chris Wright With a doff of the cap to Valencia for last night’s Europa League extravaganza against Basel (more on that shortly), here’s Pies’ pick of our five favourite Europa league/UEFA Cup...
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Retro Football: Tony Adams Caught Calling Referee David Elleray ‘Cheat’ On...
By Chris Wright Having heard that referees over in Australia’s A-League are to be miked up to allow their decisions to be included as part of the television coverage à la rugby, Pies were instantly...
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Retro Football: Gary Lineker’s First Ever Advert For Walkers Crisps, 1980s...
By Chris Wright Partly inspired by Leicester City’s return to the top flight, we thought we’d delve into the portfolio of one of the city’s most famous sons, Mr Gary Winston Lineker OBE, and hunt out...
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Retro Football: Tito Vilanova Scores Free-Kick Against Barcelona With Pep...
By Chris Wright They showed this on Revista over the weekend and Pies have been manfully trying to track it down since: The late Tito Vilanova scoring an unorthodox free-kick for UE Lleida against the...
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Retro Football: Six Glorious Minutes That Showcase Diego Maradona’s...
By Chris Wright Like a weeble, it took some going to knock Diego Maradona over – ask Andoni Goikoetxea. What we have here is a six-minute compilation (including some really rather rare footage) of...
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A Shit Kit Love Story: England Fan Finally Gets His Hands On David Seaman’s...
By Chris Wright Don’t say you weren’t warned! And now, folks, it’s time for a true ‘Shit Kit’ love story betwixt a plucky young man named Joel and, of all things, David Seaman’s seizure-inducing Euro...
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Retro Football: Jimmy ‘Griller’ Greaves Takes On Kendo Nagasaki In...
By Chris Wright Legends of the ring (L-R): Fuji Yamada, Mitzi Mueller, Gorgeous George, Kendo Nagasaki, Mighty John Quinn and Klondyke Kate Here’s something you thought/possibly hoped you’d never see:...
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Retro Football: Heroic Goalkeeper Jimmy Glass Scores 91st-Minute Goal To Save...
By Chris Wright On this day, 15 (fifteen!) years ago at the tail end of the 1998/99 season, Carlisle goalkeeper Jimmy Glass achieved true “legend” status when his incredible last-minute goal against...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #8: Javier Zanetti (Argentina) vs England, 1998...
By Chris Wright While we accept that Michael Owen should really take the honours in the ‘goal of the night’ stakes as far as the last-16 ding-dong between Argentina and England at France ’98 is...
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The Great World Cup Goals, #9: Manuel Negrete (Mexico) vs Bulgaria, 1986 (Video)
By Chris Wright Hosts Mexico made it through to the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup before going out on penalties to eventual finalists West Germany, though it was the the round previous against...
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Retro Snapshot: Wayne Rooney Licking Enormous Novelty Lollipop Whilst Wearing...
By Alan Duffy This truly bizarre photo has popped up again on Twitter and it remains one of the most bizarre things you could ever see. Apparently it’s from 2008, and it features a bright pink Wayne...
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