- 1. Tickets stubs are more than paper – they are a link to matchday memories ...
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- Whether you keep them in an old shoe box or put them up on a wall, ticket stub collections are a small part of what defines the match-going fan 13 August ~ It’s 1983. I’m 13, about to attend my ...
- Created on 13 August 2018
- 2. Sean Geddes on FA Cup fame: “I watched myself in my local on Match of the Day” ...
- (Stories)
- ... on Match of the Day. Because it’s my local, it was just normal. But, to be fair, everyone was buying me drinks. The place was full and when it came on everyone just went quiet.” Thanks to an outlandish ...
- Created on 30 November 2017
- 3. Alternative 1990-91 Match of the Day intro ...
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- Created on 25 July 2013
- 4. Rematch of the day ...
- (Referees)
- ... n progress. In the middle of all this, the experience of actually being at a match looks set to take yet another beating. Instant replays are for the televised spectator. The real-life football crowd ...
- Created on 14 January 2007
- 5. Friday night lights: why non-League crowds rise when they kick off weekend
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- Non-League clubs are increasingly reaping the benefits of switching fixtures to Friday evenings, with bumper crowds and big match atmospheres 29 October ~ The much-heralded launch of Friday Night ...
- Created on 29 October 2018
- 6. From Sunday league shouts to ultras karaoke – exploring the sounds of football
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- ... through the open windows of a stadium’s residential neighbours or the Sunday morning thuds and shouts that emanate from beyond countryside hedgerows, a football match in progress often reveals itself more ...
- Created on 08 October 2018
- 7. Bikes for goalposts, 20-a-side – the happy days of the impromptu kickaround
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- ... from other parts of town that lads from another estate formed their own side and we played them in a kind of representative match on the green. Then parents took over and formed a club from the two teams, ...
- Created on 12 January 2018
- 8. Photo of the week ~ Pre-match excitement at Matlock Town’s Causeway Lane ...
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- Matlock Town 0 Eastwood Town 3, 09/10/2010, Causeway Lane, FA Cup third qualifying round Two Matlock Town fans reading the matchday programme before the FA Cup third qualifying round tie between ...
- Created on 09 January 2018
- 9. The Anatomy Of Manchester United: A history in ten matches by Jonathan Wilson ...
- (Clubs)
- ... Wilson’s latest book is far more than an analysis of ten matches from Manchester United’s history. Those games – bookended by United’s first ever FA Cup victory in 1909 and their 12th in 2016 which failed ...
- Created on 13 December 2017
- 10. Remembering Robin Friday – the Reading and Cardiff maverick ahead of his time
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- ... Reading and now of Cardiff, will be back at the Madejski Stadium on Monday night for the televised Championship match. He’ll probably be regaled with a chant about an occasion when, to put it gently, he ...
- Created on 08 December 2017
- 11. Yesterday’s men that embraced Tomorrow’s World – when Leatherhead hit the big time
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- ... ever League scalp in round two. The match provided the first sign that Leatherhead’s hooligan problems were increasing as fast as their rise to national prominence. Around 50 Tanners fans, including Colin ...
- Created on 06 November 2017
- 12. York and Stockport’s glory days long gone as they struggle in National League North
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- ... Stockport won 3-1. That was my first ever live football match. Truth be told I remember little other than his sheer size meant only three quarters of County striker Kevin Francis was ever visible from ...
- Created on 08 September 2017
- 13. A Year And A Day: How the Lisbon Lions conquered Europe by Graham McColl
- (Clubs)
- ... a different sport, from the surreal post-match photos of a sweating, smiling Billy McNeill standing in the street holding the trophy while flanked by two Portuguese policemen, to the miniature forest of ...
- Created on 09 August 2017
- 14. From the archive ~ Homeless and broke: remembering Brighton’s darkest days
- (Stories)
- ... support the team received. Despite the result, by the end of the match Albion fans were, incredibly, outsinging the Red Army. This was in recognition of the Seagulls’ achievements in the FA Cup that ...
- Created on 07 August 2017
- 15. New photo project captures matchdays at supporter-owned Merthyr Town ...
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- Collaboration between photographer John Smith and the Dial M For Merthyr fanzine depicts fans in the surroundings of Penydarren Park stadium 16 February ~ In the summer of 2010 Merthyr Tydfil were ...
- Created on 16 February 2017
- 16. Foxes in the press box – the unexpected problems of filing match reports ...
- (Stories)
- ... were even less likely to be seen in public, I had a weekend job as a “phone assistant” for the Hayters Sports Agency. I’d attend matches for free, allocate telephones to reporters and then, in theory, ...
- Created on 08 December 2016
- 17. From the archive ~ The glory days of televised indoor tournaments
- (Stories)
- ... a Champions League match? It just wouldn’t happen. These days five-a-side tournaments are the preserve of barrel-chested old pros, but back in the Eighties, when English football was frozen out of Europe, ...
- Created on 28 November 2016
- 18. Happy birthday Francesco Totti: the eighth king of Rome
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- ... that in his prime he was a supremely gifted player, and even now in his cameo appearances he produces moments that few other players much younger than him can match. He has never been a conventional ...
- Created on 27 September 2016
- 19. Getting into Europe: The 1973 Common Market Match ...
- (Stories)
- ... there was the Wembley match. The minister of sport – the notoriously dour Eldon Griffiths – expressed a wish that “some good footballers play in the game, otherwise it could be a huge damp squib”. In fact, ...
- Created on 18 August 2016
- 20. Photo of the week ~ A muddy day at Belper
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- Belper Town 4 Gresley 1, 28/01/2014, Christchurch Meadow, Northern Premier League The referee's assistant standing in the mud during the second-half of Belper Town's match against Gresley, in a Northe ...
- Created on 20 June 2016
