Transfer tales: Serhiy Rebrov – Tottenham Hotspur
PinkAugust 12, 2015
Alan Sugar, George Graham, £11million. Doesn’t sound like a successful cocktail does it? CHRIS CLARK looks back at the Spurs signing who promised so much
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Alan Sugar, George Graham, £11million. Doesn’t sound like a successful cocktail does it? CHRIS CLARK looks back at the Spurs signing who promised so much
CHRIS ETCHINGHAM soon realised that it’s the hope that kills you, when a highly-regarded Spanish midfielder swapped the Bernabeu for Loftus Road. As a supporter of QPR, I
More tales of woe in the transfer tales series, this time from the City Ground. DAVID MARPLES remembers Stan Collymore’s successor at Forest. It’s the
BY CHRIS FREAN This is a book which will hopefully alert the modern football community to what the game used to be like. Or following
JAMIE WHITEHEAD recalls a player who, during a four year spell in England, spent more time warming up than he did on the pitch. This is
HUGH WRAGG looks back at the transfer that brought a Swedish full back to Hillsborough. He became an Owls legend. Looking back at the early 1990s
The Arsenal great Tony Adams was once labelled by opposition fans as a donkey. Here, PAT ROWHAN remembers ‘the raging Shetland pony’ who galloped free across the turf of
There has been much talk about the new changes to the offside rule. Here MARK GODFREY discovers how, in the mid-1920s, another recent amendment to the
Another shocker in our transfer greats and flops series, and this time it’s Manchester City – no strangers to terrible transfers in the past –
Keep tickets official Arsenal fans were hit hard this year, with their season ticket coming in at a whopping £2,039. However much you love football,
BY ANDRE LEDEZMA In 2013, Gareth Bale left Tottenham Hotspur to follow a new path. It took an investment of 94million Euros by Real Madrid
Next up in our tales of transfers past, we move to Goodison Park and a player who came with a good reputation but failed to deliver,
STEPHEN STRATTON explains why he believes the Irish striking duo, who came as a 2-for-1 package, were Reading’s finest ever acquisitions. Reading have had great success in the
In the latest of our transfer greats and flops series, MARK TANNER highlights a hero and villain of recent times down at Twerton Park. In
In the first of a new series, some of our writers tell us their club’s greatest or worst ever transfers. To kick us off, STEVE MITCHELL sings the
It’s been a rollercoaster few years for Heart of Midlothian Football Club, but after financial rescue and a surprise runaway success in the Scottish Championship
Lead photo by Darren McKinstry/www.johnnymckinstry.com BY CHRIS CLARK Johnny McKinstry is a Northern Irishman who has coached all over the world, so far he has
BY LEE MOLTON – @LeeMolton ‘From Ricky Villa to Dave Beasant’ is the third and final book looking at FA Cup finals with this particular
BY STUART HOWARD-COFIELD News broke last May that, following a stint as assistant manager to Lawrie Sanchez at Apollon Smyrni in Cyprus, Stephen Constantine was
BY MARK GODFREY West Germany 1974. Summer time. The FIFA World Cup. It was a time of change, of things being stood on their heads.
BY JACK UNWIN Fabio Capello; the ‘game’s ultimate pragmatist’ according to a recent piece by Greg Lea for These Football Times. As Lea wrote, Capello
JACK ROBINSON recently visited the disputed region of Kosovo and examined the continuing relationship between Serbian football supporter groups and the spreading of nationalist ideology.
BY CHARLES DUCKSBURY Whilst the rest of Europe anxiously awaits the decision on Greece’s financial future, the nation’s football clubs are trying their best to
The FA Cup has taken a bit of a kicking over the past few years. There have, of course, been a few notable upsets in
REVIEWED BY ROBERT NIBLOCK – @wackyj67 In the world of British football circa late sixties/early seventies much has been written about the exploits of the
BY ANDREW BOULTON Depending on who you talk to, Raheem Sterling is either a naïve puppet, an avaricious sell-sword or a plain old traitor. It’s
BY MARK GODFREY Thanks to the patronage of one of this country’s finest ever comic talents, unfashionable Luton Town achieved virtual cult status at a
BY MARK GODFREY In 1987, the city of Berlin (although still divided at the time) celebrated its 750th anniversary. In its famous Olympic Stadium, Thomas
BY CHRIS CLARK Ian Crocker is known as the voice of Scottish football on Sky Sports, but how did he get started in the business?
This article appears in Issue 8 of The Football Pink magazine – the Italia ’90 25th anniversary edition which you can find in print and
BY MAT GUY It is June 20th 2013 and the 79,000 seat Maracana stadium in Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil, a stadium that used to hold
With the recent passing of Czech great Josef Masopust NEIL JENSEN remembers his great career and the impact he had on European football. Cold War
BY PAUL BREEN In politics they call it silly season; when commentators struggle for stories about actual things that are happening and instead resort to
BY CHRIS MARSHALL It’s just a few days after Sean Maloney put a full stop on the 2014/15 Scottish football season with an equaliser against
BY CHRIS CLARK Danny Higginbotham started his playing career under the tutelage of Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford. He played over 200 games in
REVIEWED BY DEREK BELL – @derek2bell My battered old 1991 paperback edition of this is subtitled ‘The full story of Italia ‘90’ with the blurb on
BY DAVE HEARN Trudging out of Wembley Stadium having watched Middlesbrough’s season completely unravel within fifteen minutes of our play-off final against Norwich City kicking-off,
BY PAUL BREEN Charlton’s season ended with half the club’s support applauding one of their favourite strikers, celebrating his successful end to the season. In
The character traits necessary for international football players has long been the subject of study and debate. Whilst football players aren’t typically renowned for their
BY CHRIS CLARK Matt Smith has been presenting football on our screens since the turn of the century, but how did this opportunity come about
BY BILLY TAYLOR In the early 20th century, football in England was the chosen sport of the working class; white, male. Applying themselves to mundane
BY WILL MAGEE Late last week, I decided on a whim that I absolutely had to watch the FA Cup final in a live and
Every year a number of professional football players retire from one of the greatest sports in the world and recently we have seen many legends
BY CHRIS CLARK When Mauricio Pochettino arrived from Southampton in May 2014, Spurs had disengaged themselves from their supporters after a disastrous 2013-2014 campaign. By
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM It’s the little things in life that grab people’s attention and my own particular obsession is squad numbers in football. In this
BY TOMOS KNOX The four national teams of the United Kingdom are supposedly England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Each with its own FIFA affiliated
BY NICK WELLS For the first time in months, I forgot about the despicable owner, the inept manager and the uncaring players. For a brief
BY MARK WILSON One of the great Victorian football clubs -Â defunct for over 120 years -Â have been reformed with the aim of raising money for
BY MARK GODFREY May 29th 1985 will go down as one of football’s darkest days. At the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, before the scheduled kick-off
BY EUAN DEWAR A quick reminder of an important Arsenal stat: Ever since Wenger took the reins of the club in the 1996-97 season, they
Alan Sugar, George Graham, £11million. Doesn’t sound like a successful cocktail does it? CHRIS CLARK looks back at the Spurs signing who promised so much
CHRIS ETCHINGHAM soon realised that it’s the hope that kills you, when a highly-regarded Spanish midfielder swapped the Bernabeu for Loftus Road. As a supporter of QPR, I
More tales of woe in the transfer tales series, this time from the City Ground. DAVID MARPLES remembers Stan Collymore’s successor at Forest. It’s the
BY CHRIS FREAN This is a book which will hopefully alert the modern football community to what the game used to be like. Or following
JAMIE WHITEHEAD recalls a player who, during a four year spell in England, spent more time warming up than he did on the pitch. This is
HUGH WRAGG looks back at the transfer that brought a Swedish full back to Hillsborough. He became an Owls legend. Looking back at the early 1990s
The Arsenal great Tony Adams was once labelled by opposition fans as a donkey. Here, PAT ROWHAN remembers ‘the raging Shetland pony’ who galloped free across the turf of
There has been much talk about the new changes to the offside rule. Here MARK GODFREY discovers how, in the mid-1920s, another recent amendment to the
Another shocker in our transfer greats and flops series, and this time it’s Manchester City – no strangers to terrible transfers in the past –
Keep tickets official Arsenal fans were hit hard this year, with their season ticket coming in at a whopping £2,039. However much you love football,
BY ANDRE LEDEZMA In 2013, Gareth Bale left Tottenham Hotspur to follow a new path. It took an investment of 94million Euros by Real Madrid
Next up in our tales of transfers past, we move to Goodison Park and a player who came with a good reputation but failed to deliver,
STEPHEN STRATTON explains why he believes the Irish striking duo, who came as a 2-for-1 package, were Reading’s finest ever acquisitions. Reading have had great success in the
In the latest of our transfer greats and flops series, MARK TANNER highlights a hero and villain of recent times down at Twerton Park. In
In the first of a new series, some of our writers tell us their club’s greatest or worst ever transfers. To kick us off, STEVE MITCHELL sings the
It’s been a rollercoaster few years for Heart of Midlothian Football Club, but after financial rescue and a surprise runaway success in the Scottish Championship
Lead photo by Darren McKinstry/www.johnnymckinstry.com BY CHRIS CLARK Johnny McKinstry is a Northern Irishman who has coached all over the world, so far he has
BY LEE MOLTON – @LeeMolton ‘From Ricky Villa to Dave Beasant’ is the third and final book looking at FA Cup finals with this particular
BY STUART HOWARD-COFIELD News broke last May that, following a stint as assistant manager to Lawrie Sanchez at Apollon Smyrni in Cyprus, Stephen Constantine was
BY MARK GODFREY West Germany 1974. Summer time. The FIFA World Cup. It was a time of change, of things being stood on their heads.
BY JACK UNWIN Fabio Capello; the ‘game’s ultimate pragmatist’ according to a recent piece by Greg Lea for These Football Times. As Lea wrote, Capello
JACK ROBINSON recently visited the disputed region of Kosovo and examined the continuing relationship between Serbian football supporter groups and the spreading of nationalist ideology.
BY CHARLES DUCKSBURY Whilst the rest of Europe anxiously awaits the decision on Greece’s financial future, the nation’s football clubs are trying their best to
The FA Cup has taken a bit of a kicking over the past few years. There have, of course, been a few notable upsets in
REVIEWED BY ROBERT NIBLOCK – @wackyj67 In the world of British football circa late sixties/early seventies much has been written about the exploits of the
BY ANDREW BOULTON Depending on who you talk to, Raheem Sterling is either a naïve puppet, an avaricious sell-sword or a plain old traitor. It’s
BY MARK GODFREY Thanks to the patronage of one of this country’s finest ever comic talents, unfashionable Luton Town achieved virtual cult status at a
BY MARK GODFREY In 1987, the city of Berlin (although still divided at the time) celebrated its 750th anniversary. In its famous Olympic Stadium, Thomas
BY CHRIS CLARK Ian Crocker is known as the voice of Scottish football on Sky Sports, but how did he get started in the business?
This article appears in Issue 8 of The Football Pink magazine – the Italia ’90 25th anniversary edition which you can find in print and
BY MAT GUY It is June 20th 2013 and the 79,000 seat Maracana stadium in Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil, a stadium that used to hold
With the recent passing of Czech great Josef Masopust NEIL JENSEN remembers his great career and the impact he had on European football. Cold War
BY PAUL BREEN In politics they call it silly season; when commentators struggle for stories about actual things that are happening and instead resort to
BY CHRIS MARSHALL It’s just a few days after Sean Maloney put a full stop on the 2014/15 Scottish football season with an equaliser against
BY CHRIS CLARK Danny Higginbotham started his playing career under the tutelage of Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford. He played over 200 games in
REVIEWED BY DEREK BELL – @derek2bell My battered old 1991 paperback edition of this is subtitled ‘The full story of Italia ‘90’ with the blurb on
BY DAVE HEARN Trudging out of Wembley Stadium having watched Middlesbrough’s season completely unravel within fifteen minutes of our play-off final against Norwich City kicking-off,
BY PAUL BREEN Charlton’s season ended with half the club’s support applauding one of their favourite strikers, celebrating his successful end to the season. In
The character traits necessary for international football players has long been the subject of study and debate. Whilst football players aren’t typically renowned for their
BY CHRIS CLARK Matt Smith has been presenting football on our screens since the turn of the century, but how did this opportunity come about
BY BILLY TAYLOR In the early 20th century, football in England was the chosen sport of the working class; white, male. Applying themselves to mundane
BY WILL MAGEE Late last week, I decided on a whim that I absolutely had to watch the FA Cup final in a live and
Every year a number of professional football players retire from one of the greatest sports in the world and recently we have seen many legends
BY CHRIS CLARK When Mauricio Pochettino arrived from Southampton in May 2014, Spurs had disengaged themselves from their supporters after a disastrous 2013-2014 campaign. By
BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM It’s the little things in life that grab people’s attention and my own particular obsession is squad numbers in football. In this
BY TOMOS KNOX The four national teams of the United Kingdom are supposedly England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Each with its own FIFA affiliated
BY NICK WELLS For the first time in months, I forgot about the despicable owner, the inept manager and the uncaring players. For a brief
BY MARK WILSON One of the great Victorian football clubs -Â defunct for over 120 years -Â have been reformed with the aim of raising money for
BY MARK GODFREY May 29th 1985 will go down as one of football’s darkest days. At the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, before the scheduled kick-off
BY EUAN DEWAR A quick reminder of an important Arsenal stat: Ever since Wenger took the reins of the club in the 1996-97 season, they
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