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Late Tackle
/ 14 years agoRANDOM…
WITH PATRICK JOHN DID YOU KNOW While the rest of this sea-faring nation marked the centenary of the sinking of...
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/ 14 years agoHODDLE, WADDLE AND OTHER FOOTBALLING WARBLERS
DAVID STANDEN reckons footballers should learn from past mistakes and leave the crooning to the professionals AT the turn of 2012,...
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/ 14 years agoPop down the local
CHRIS MARTIN wishes most Manchester United fans still came from Salford Prawn sandwiches, floppy jester hats, a brand new replica kit...
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/ 14 years agoSpecial reserves that made the grade
SAM HUGHES on a team that were more than just ‘the stiffs’ Generally, reserve sides of big clubs in Spain struggle. Whether...
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/ 14 years agoWelcome to Late Tackle
FIRST of all, a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year – and thanks for buying Late Tackle. We’ve had a lot...
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/ 14 years agoThe missing Lincs
ALAN JOHNSON reports on a torrid time for Lincolnshire that has seen four league clubs reduced to just one When Aldershot...
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/ 14 years agoCruyff ’s funny turn
LIAM MILNER on the trials and tribulations of one of Europe’s biggest clubs that has seen some of its greatest names...
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/ 14 years agoStory of the Blues
MICK RATHBONE spent 35 years as a player and physio at Birmingham, Blackburn and Everton. This extract from ‘The Smell Of...
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/ 14 years agoGoodbye Ceefax
Blocky, slow, clumpy but a much-loved source of vital information. MIKE MARTIN mourns the passing of analogue Ceefax to the big...
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/ 14 years agoCome on Pool City!
PAUL BROWN with the tale of the league “everyone was talking about” in 1978 — but only for 15 weeks Forget...
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/ 14 years agoIn praise of the gaffer
OLLY RICKETTS argues that even today, success requires more than just money As Roger Domeneghetti argued in his excellent piece on...
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/ 14 years agoThe anatomy of a transfer saga
ADAM HURREY of angleofpostandbar.blogspot.com on how players, agents, pundits and the media come together to produce one of the more tedious...
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/ 14 years agoThe ultimate academy
JAMES HERD can’t understand why the big clubs spend so little time and effort scouting players in non-league football Roy Essandoh,...
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/ 14 years agoThe fantastic four
PATRICK JOHN looks past the flashy Dutch masters who took all the headlines at the San Siro 20 years ago and...
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/ 14 years agoRANDOM…
with Patrick John DID YOU KNOW: On Christmas Day 1935, Oldham beat Tranmere 4-1 in the old Third Division North. Big...
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/ 14 years agoInside ‘Franchise FC’
MARK SANDERSON wonders if there’s more to MK Dons than the ‘franchise’ by going to the core of the club, the...
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/ 14 years agoLate Tackle issue four – even slicker than Neil Warnock’s 1970s barnet
Issue four of Late Tackle – in all good newsagents on February 29 ... Continue reading... Access all our premium content...
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/ 14 years agoPilgrims have had their faith tested
TIM HART on what has been the most turbulent, testing, roller-coaster two years in the long history of a club that...
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/ 14 years agoBasqueing in the glory
WALSH’S WORLD Kristian Walsh on matters abroad There’s nothing better in football than watching a team which typifies the city it...
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/ 14 years agoA reluctant champion
In an extract from excellent new book ‘Joe Fagan, a reluctant champion’ ANDREW FAGAN and MARK PLATT recall the drama of...
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/ 14 years agoThe good doctor
STEPHEN TUDOR pays a personal tribute to the football genius that was Socrates After a long battle with illness, the great...
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/ 14 years agoMy affair with Reading
MARK SEGAL had a break from his beloved West Ham to run off with another team Support for your football club...
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/ 14 years agoHero worship ain’t what it used to be
OLLY RICKETTS takes a slightly depressing walk down World Cup memory lane I recently discovered that over the years I have...
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/ 14 years agoWhat happened to the likely lads?
SCOTT TERRIO mourns the passing of the out-and-out winger, a player that seems to have been sacrificed to the modern football...
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/ 14 years agoThe true burger king
DAN ROBERTS has tasted the best and worst of footy “cuisine” on his travels around the nation — he’s forgotten more...
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/ 14 years agoJon Stark: Footballer of the future
PAUL BROWN looks at one of the Seventies’ biggest football stars Jon Stark arrived on the football scene in the late...
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/ 14 years agoHAIR WE GO
WE’RE as guilty as anyone for mourning all that’s gone from the game, but there’s one thing that has remained constant...
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/ 14 years agoRANDOM…
with Patrick John DID YOU KNOW: Wycombe Wanderers’ mascot, Bodger, is based on a real person, former striker Tony ‘Bodger’ Horseman....
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/ 14 years agoFred Pentland — the man in the bowler hat
SAM HUGHES tells the amazing tale of the Englishman that gave Spain their footballing identity and once managed a team that...
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/ 14 years agoThe one-cap wonder
PATRICK JOHN on the player that epitomised a decade and was loved by fans of two very different clubs, if not...
