Timeless
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6.3KThe 1971 Cup Winners’ Cup: When Chelsea’s debutants overcame the Old Masters of European football
After winning the FA Cup in 1970, defeating Leeds United in a couple of brutal battles first at Wembley, and then in...
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6.5KChris Nicholl: Own goals, a great goal and the heavy price to pay
There is an indisputable glamour about being a professional footballer in the top ranks of the game. There’s fame, fortune and the...
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17.0KClive Thomas and “the most controversial decision that any referee has ever made”
Back in 1981, Tottenham and Wolverhampton Wanderers played an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough. It was a game that I happened to...
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5.0KMatthias Sindelar: The exquisite life and mysterious death of Austria’s ‘Papery Man’
On 23 January 1939, Gustav Hartman knocked on the door of his friend’s flat in Vienna. By almost any definition, at the...
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3.4KThe Momentous History of Northern Ireland’s clash with Germany
Northern Ireland enjoyed their first taste of a tournament final in a generation, back in 2016 when they reached the last 16...
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8.5KRay Clemence: The White Hart Lane Years
When a professional player enters his thirties, he is often considered well past him prime and in the twilight years of his...
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5.4KThe unexpected joys and controversy of Newcastle United and the 1969 Fairs Cup
The origin and history of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup is often lost in the mists of time, and for many football fans...
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4.6KLionel Messi’s Argentina debut – ‘When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers’
Considered by many pundits not only to be the best player in the world, Lionel Messi is also widely touted as the...
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5.2KLazio’s first was the tournament’s last: European Cup Winners’ Cup 1999
It has been decades since the Lazio beat Spanish side Real Mallorca in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Birmingham to...
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6.2KThe ill-fitting shoe: Dennis Bergkamp at Inter
Dennis Bergkamp became a legend playing under Arsène Wenger for Arsenal, and a statue of him outside the Emirates confirms such status...
