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BY WILL MAGEE Liverpool is a romantic club. There’s no two ways about it. Its history needs no introduction. The club’s honours are almost beyond
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BY HUGH WRAGG Fifty matches, little in the way of entertainment, record-low goals total, record-equalling defence. Even the most fanatical Wednesdayite would struggle to be
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BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM On the afternoon of March 9th 1946, at an FA Cup quarter- final between Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City, 33 fans died
BY MARK GODFREY Peru launched a cross into the Argentine box, looking for an equaliser that would push them closer towards qualification for the 1964
BY BEN WHITE I read recently, that on the second evening of Champions League Quarter Finals (15th April 2015), all 4 coaches (Enrique, Guardiola, Blanc
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BY ANUSHREE NANDE Football needs no introduction. Its popularity spans countries, languages, cultures and backgrounds. But how many of us know the roots of the
BY WILL MAGEE There are many mediums of protest art. Paintings, such as Picasso’s hopelessly monochrome, surreal anti-war work Guernica. Music, from classical compositions like
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BY JIM KEOGHAN I came of age, in football terms at least, during the early-1980s. At the time, I lived in Liverpool, a city saturated
BY MARK GODFREY Saturday, 2nd January 1971 was like so many other mid-winter’s days in the east of Scotland; damp, grey, cold. Gisela Easton stood
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BY SAM BRYANT When clubs get relegated from the Premier League, we often hear about a ‘2-year plan.’ This basically means they need to get
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BY MARK GODFREY For the uninitiated, Alex Totten is a man who has spent his whole life immersed in football; as a one-time team mate of Alex Ferguson
BY RAY HARPER According to Wikipedia, the Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup is the 4th oldest surviving cup competition in the world, after the FA
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BY CHRIS ETCHINGHAM “A win for Palestino is a joy for the suffering Palestinian people†so believes Maurice Khamis Massu president of Chilean football team
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BY MARK GODFREY To the English fan, he was an alien; as otherworldly as it could get. Accustomed to a staple diet of Steve Hodge,
BY MARK GODFREY Ever wish you’d chronicled your life as football fan, from that very first enlightening moment to whatever stage of infatuation, loathing or
BY MARK GODFREY In this most western of West German cities, Aachen – a favoured seat of medieval king Charlemagne - you’ll find the home of ‘Die Kartoffelkäfer’
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