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Features
/ 13 years agoPLAYING KETCHUP
LUKE CONSTABLE wonders if Fernando Torres will ever truly rediscover his goalscoring touch AS PART of Roman Abramovich’s increasingly esoteric recruitment...
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Features
/ 13 years agoTHE WRITES AND WRONGS OF FOOTBALL FANZINES
They’ve been kicking around for decades, but what exactly is – and isn’t – a fanzine? WILLIAM ABBS tries to explain......
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Book Reviews
/ 13 years agoIT’S BIN A LONG TIME
JON LIVESEY looks back at the career of legendary Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall and reviews his book, The Binman Chronicles. ONLY...
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Features
/ 13 years agoBEWARE SNOW, FLOOODS AND TYRANTS
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the perils of the weather – and other less obvious influences on whether a match gets played...
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Features
/ 13 years agoTHE MATCHDAY EXPERIENCE
ALISTAIR MCLAUCHLAN, a Scot living in Ecuador, wonders who’s got it best when it comes to watching football Atahualpa Stadium EVERY...
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Features
/ 13 years agoBRITS, BRIAN, BIG BALLS AND BENFICA
STEVEN GREEN remembers when Portugal chopped Souey Graeme Souness at Benfica THERE are certain periods in every club’s history that are...
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Features
/ 13 years agoTHE CUP DOESN’T MEAN F.A. TO ME’
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS says you can’t beat The FA Cup third-round draw I’d just watched a decent second-round tie on...
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Features
/ 13 years agoAN ADVENTURE AT THE WRONG END OF THE PYRAMID
CHRIS EVANS tells the tale of an African player still dreaming of the big time while keeping goal in the Central...
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Features
/ 13 years agoBADGES OF DISHONOUR
WALSH’S WORLD - KRISTIAN WALSH REGRETS A FOOTBALL REVOLUTION THE ever-growing movement against modern football is a commendable one. Supporters are being...
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Features
/ 13 years agoI FOUND MY FOOTBALL SOUL IN THE ORIENT
Adam Michie committed the cardinal sin and swapped allegiances. How did it workl out? In 2010, I committed the cardinal sin...
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Features
/ 13 years agoJUST GET ON WITH IT!
Tunnel cameras, handshakes and theme tunes -PAUL CANTWELL has had enough of the pre-match palaver and is thankful for Sky Plus......
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Features
/ 13 years agoNOT SINGING ANY MORE?
NEIL SCOTT wonders why so few have cracked it when it comes to fusing togger and tunes into a successful partnership...
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Features
/ 13 years agoGET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66
No, not that one. MICHAEL MOWBRAY had a jumping out of the bath experience that led to him attending more than...
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Features
/ 13 years agoCONFESSIONS OF A SOCCER SPURLOCK…
CHRIS SHAW binges on televised football for a weekend and rediscovers a love of neutral viewing IDOUBT there is anyone reading...
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Features
/ 13 years agoHESKEY REVISITED
JAMES DUTTON looks at one of the most-maligned of the old-style centre-forward and asks, was he THAT bad? HAVE you heard...
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Features
/ 13 years agoSTRIPPED BACK
Christmas will help to breed a new generation of wanna-be football managers and stasticians -KEITH MENARY remembers the more innocent times...
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Features
/ 13 years agoTACKLING BIRTHDAYS
Rubbish football cards... they were, er, quite good, actually, says ASHLEY GREB, and he wonders why we can’t buy them any more...
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Features
/ 13 years agoSCHTOP, SCHTEVE!
THIS COUNTRY, WE, RE NOT READY YET! KEITH MENARY wasn’t pleased to see the ‘wally with the brolly’ back on our...
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Features
/ 13 years agoFOOTBALL… IT IS FOR GIRLS!
Female faces are more common than ever before at the match – but there’s still a way to go says HELEN...
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Features
/ 13 years agoTHUMB THING WE RELIED ON
CEEFAX 302-SATURDAY 3PM Ceefax – the staple source of information for many a football fan’s thumb – has broadcast its last...
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Features
/ 13 years agoDiving Bored
GARETH ROBERTS RANTS GARETH ROBERTS is sick of the outpouring of mock outrage every time a player takes a tumble WHAT...
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Features
/ 13 years agoTHE BEST OF THE WORST DIVERS
Jurgen klinsmann THE original and still the best. Pelting down the right wing during the 1990 World Cup final , Germany...
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Features
/ 13 years agoGETTING SHIRTY ABOUT RACISM
STEPHEN TUDOR reckons it’s up to fans to keep the focus on the real issues in our game Rio warming up...
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Features
/ 13 years agoWHO,S BETTER? WHO,S BEST? WHO CARES?
PAUL WILKES reckons the continual clamour to separate Messi and Ronaldo is pointless Ronaldo FOR ONCE it seemed as though he...
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Features
/ 13 years agoCRYING FOWL
Since chicken farmers Venky’s took control, it’s been a clucking mess at Ewood Park. But TIM ALDRED says there’s still time...
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Features
/ 13 years agoSoccer AM MAKE IT STOP!
LUKE CONSTABLE reckons it’s time to blow the whistle on Sky’s Saturday morning cringeworthy lad-fest ALLOW me to confess: I will...
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Features
/ 13 years agoSoccer AM THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE…
JAMIE WHITEHEAD offers some words of support for the much-maligned Soccer AM SKY. It’s the one word that divides opinion in...
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Features
/ 13 years agoBANANA SHOTS THUNDERBOLTS AND CURLERS
CHRIS DUNLAVY looks at the masters of the free-kick through the years, their techniques and their staggering strike rates WHAT makes...
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Features
/ 13 years agoFOOTBALL’S ANSWER TO MONEYBALL
DECLAN OLLEY looks at Porto’s remarkable knack of winning trophies and beating the transfer system MICHAEL LEWIS’ Moneyball has been an...
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Features
/ 13 years agoCARRICK, GHOST OF SEASON,S PAST
STEPHEN TUDOR says Michael Carrick personifies what has gone wrong with English football ANDREA PIRLO bewitched the watching continent with a...
