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As expected, when you start getting towards the business end of European competition the standard of team you face will only go up levels and such was the case when they were drawn with Hajduk Split.
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When Terry Venables breezed into Barcelona in 1984 with his cheeky cockney smile to take over at the world renowned cathedral of dreams, the Camp Nou.
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Kirkland Laing – The Upsetter
Written by Chris Clark
Brought to us by the ancient Greeks, its edges neatly rounded off by the Marquis of Queensbury in 1867, before being wrapped and packaged for the masses by TV in the 20th century,
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Red Star Belgrade 1991: Yugoslavia’s Greatest on the eve of a National Collapse
Written by Shahan Petrossian
When the 1990/91 season started, Red Star Belgrade were hardly anyone’s favorites to win that season’s edition of the Champions Cup.
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Yeovil Town Superfan Pat Custard
Written by Nick Churchill
Short of scoring a last minute winner, there’s not much that Pat Custard hasn’t done for Yeovil Town Football Club over the last 30-odd years.
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As the Scottish champions Dundee United, emerged from the Tannadice Park tunnel on a balmy April night,
The Passion of the Jesus
Written by Johnny Proctor
Football has always had it’s share of larger than life, colourful characters, but at times across the world within the beautiful game
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Sepp Piontek’s Denmark: We Are Red, We Are White, We Are Danish Dynamite
Written by Shahan Petrossian
When one evokes Denmark in Footballing terms, most people’s thoughts immediately turn to the early to mid 1980s when a West German
That old northern business…. A field
After battle utters its own sound
Which is like nothing on earth’
Geoffrey Hill
After battle utters its own sound
Which is like nothing on earth’
Geoffrey Hill
The end of the Great War in Europe ushered in another War between competing ideologies. While this new War was not fought on the battlefield, a new ideological War was being waged and Football was not immune to it.
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Long serving goalkeeper Rudi Kargus and defender Peter Nogly left Hamburg during the summer.
The near double relegation of SV Hamburg and VfB Stuttgart this past season took my memories back to more than thirty years earlier when both teams left an indelible mark on me as a new Football fan.
The sore heads of the Neapolitans were only starting to clear when the team completed their first Italian double when they clinically and professionally dispatched Atalanta 4-0 in the Coppa Italia final. In less than twelve months Maradona had won the World Cup in Mexico and then came back to domestic duties and proving to be a major part of the fairy tale in usurping the mighty North of Italy as part of the
The Race Track Gangs
Written by Dirk Kirby
Since the early 1800s. the English always had a passion for horse racing: the wealthy purchased, bred and raced horses and people of all classes of society bet on their performance. As more and more racecourses opened across the country, so more punters flocked to them and special excursion trains ferried them to and from the tracks. Enormous sums of money changed hands; between the two world wars, it was estimated that the annual turnover in racing circles approached £500,000,000.
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