Fashioning a goal from Mini Twiglets and asking a Jelly Baby to be keeper, magazine editor Andy Lyons, writer Harry Pearson and host Daniel Gray discuss great players who were terrible managers, from Jackie Milburn’s Ipswich to Gazza’s Kettering via Lothar Matthäus’ Cameroon canoodle problem. Record Breakers brings a ballad from Brann, and we continue our sprightly feature, The Final Third, in which a guest contributes a match, a player and an object to the WSC Museum of Football. Joining Dan as our visiting curator this time is BBC Newcastle’s Sunderland commentator, Nick Barnes.
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The lucrative sponsorship deals get the headlines, but be it superstition or whatever feels most comfortable, every footballer has their own preference when picking a pair
This endearingly anachronistic range of player figurines may have lacked accuracy and interactivity, but they provided an early window into the world of football
It requires extremes of timing to drown out PA systems but nothing beats those roof-rattling, full-throated roars forced out by penalty box drama
For the armchair viewer the tournament has been a mixture of pain and pleasure
4 July ~ On Thursday June 9, I doubted I had the stamina for another televised summer finals. By Thursday June 23, in the break after the group games, I doubted I could endure two whole days without live European Championship football.