DON’T WRITE OFF THE REDS

FEW PUNDITS HAVE BACKED LIVERPOOL TO WIN THE PREMIER LEAGUE BUT THE FORMER CHAMPS ARE AS GOOD AS ANYONE ARGUES THOMAS...

SINGING THE BLUES

RICKY CARROLL TELLS US ABOUT A LIFETIME FOLLOWING CHELSEA... High jump: Chelsea’s Jakob Kjeldbjerg wins an aerial duel against Manchester United’s...

MIXING WITH THE BEAST, A MONK AND ROONEY…

NIGE TASSLE JOURNEYS THROUGH THE SECOND TIER... What a feeling: Wycombe Wanderers’ Adebayo ‘The Beast’ Akinfenwa celebrates his last-gasp penalty winner...

THANKS IRON MAN

KEVIN HALLS TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF COVENTRY CITY LEGEND GEORGE CURTIS... Glory day: George Curtis celebrates Coventry’s...

PIONEERING BLUES

LIFELONG BIRMINGHAM CITY SUPPORTER KEITH DIXON RECALLS WHEN HIS FAVOURITES LED THE WAY FOR ENGLISH SIDES IN EUROPE... Up for it:...

SUPER JACK-THE 100 MILLION POUND MAN

ROBERT J WILSON SAYS JACK GREALISH HAS ALL THE CREDENTIALS TO LIVE UP TO HIS INCREDIBLE PRICE TAG Settling in: Jack...

LONG LIVE THE LEAGUE CUP

SAM TODD TELLS US WHY HE IS AN UNASHAMED FAN OF OUR DOMESTIC FOOTBALL’S THIRD COMPETITION... Cup kings: Manchester City celebrate...

MIND THE GAP

ACTIVITY IN THE SUMMER TRANSFER WINDOW REFLECTS HOW THE FINANCIAL DEMOGRAPHIC OF EUROPEAN FOOTBALL HAS ALTERED SINCE THE PANDEMIC, ARGUES THOMAS...

OLE’S CRUSADE

RICHARD SAYELL EXAMINES WHETHER MANCHESTER UNITED BOSS OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER HAS FINALLY FOUND THE MISSING PIECES OF THE PUZZLE TO RECLAIM...

GAZZA-AT BOSTON UNITED

DAN BARKER GRAY RECALLS PAUL GASCOIGNE’S LAST HURRAH AS A PLAYER... IT’S not unusual for former top-flight players to find themselves...

GERD MULLER – KING OF GOALS

ROBERT J WILSON LOOKS BACK AT THE LIFE OF THE LEGENDARY GERMAN STRIKER... Defining moment: Gerd Muller nets West Germany’s winner...

THE JOY AND PAIN OF PENALTIES

KEVIN HALLS REFLECTS ON THE DIFFERING FORTUNES OF THOSE BRAVE ENOUGH TO STEP UP TO THE PENALTY SPOT.... Agony: England’s Bukayo...

RHODES TO REDEMPTION

CAMERON POPE ANALYSES THE PROSPECTS OF ONCE-PROLIFIC STRIKER JORDAN RHODES RECAPTURING HIS BEST FORM ON HIS RETURN TO HUDDERSFIELD TOWN... THE...

SINGING THE BLUES

CHRIS WRIGHT TAKES A LOOK BACK AT WHEN CHELSEA’S FORTUNES REALLY STARTED TO CHANGE... Showing off the FA Cup IT’S hard...

JUDE’S JOURNEY

BIRMINGHAM CITY FAN KEITH DIXON TAKES A LOOK AT THE FACTORS BEHIND THE RAPID RISE OF FORMER BLUES STARLET JUDE BELLINGHAM......

DON AND DUSTED

ERIK SAMUELSON TELLS CHRIS DUNLAVY ABOUT HIS BOOK CHARTING THE INCREDIBLE RISE OF AFC WIMBLEDON... We’ve Don it! AFC Wimbledon celebrate...

MAGIC MACCA

SAM TODD TAKES A LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE OF PORTSMOUTH AND REP OF IRELAND STAR ALAN McLOUGHLIN ALAN McLoughlin’s death...

THE BEAUTY AND BURDEN OF NOSTALGIA

MIKE DOUGLAS EXPLAINS WHY IT WAS TIME FOR A RADICAL CHANGE TO HIS CHERISHED FOOTBALL COLLECTION... WHEN you’ve spent decades collecting...

WE’RE NEARLY THERE!

CHRIS DUNLAVY SAYS CRITICISM OF ENGLAND BOSS GARETH SOUTHGATE’S CONSERVATIVE STYLE IS WIDE OF THE MARK - AND THE THREE LIONS...

ALF’S BAPTISM OF FIRE

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN ENGLAND MADE AN EARLY ‘EUROS’ EXIT IN 1963 UNDER THEIR NEW MANAGER On the stretch: Jimmy Armfield...

TALES TO WHET THE APPETITE

The Away Leg: XI Football Stories From on the Road, by Steve Menary and James Montague, published by Pitch Publishing, Price:...

AN UNFORGETTABLE EUROS

ROBERT J WILSON PICKS OUT SOME OF HIS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONTINENTAL SHOWPIECE... THERE is no doubting that Euro 2020 will...

JIMMY GLASS’ GOAL-DEN MOMENT

KEVIN HALLS RECALLS WHEN A LITTLE KNOWN GOALKEEPER MADE HIMSELF AN UNEXPECTED HERO... Would you believe it? Goalkeeper Jimmy Glass celebrates...

BLACKPOOL’S ITALIAN JOB

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN THE SEASIDERS SHONE ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE... Crav-ing success: Overjoyed Blackpool skipper John Craven holds the Anglo-Italian...

GO FOR IT, GARETH

CHRIS DUNLAVY EXPLAINS WHY THE ENGLAND BOSS MUST RELEASE THE HANDBRAKE IF THE THREE LIONS ARE TO TRIUMPH IN THE EUROS......

KEEPING IT REAL

SAM TODD SUGGESTS ENGLAND FANS SHOULDN’T GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP GLORY THIS SUMMER... WOULD it really...

TERRY’S EURO ’96 WARM-UP

STUART STEELYARD RECALLS HOW TERRY VENABLES PLOTTED ENGLAND’S COURSE TOWARDS A MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS ON HOME TURF... AFTER Graham Taylor’s England failed...

A ROLLERCOASTER LEEDS RIDE

AUTHOR STEVEN DAWSON EXPLAINS WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE FOLLOWED HIS BELOVED TEAM FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY... ALTHOUGH I’d experienced...

POSH PROVE THEIR CLASS

BILLY MULLEY REFLECTS ON PETERBOROUGH’S PROMOTION TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP-AND THEIR PROSPECTS NEXT TERM... What a feeling: Joe Ward celebrates with ecstatic...

CROATIAN SPURS

BARNABY ROSTANT RECALLS  WHEN THREE COMPATRIOTS PLAYED A STARRING ROLE  AT TOTTENHAM... Earning their Spurs: Vedran Corluka   Niko Kranjcar in action...