- 41. England in the World Cup
- (World Cup)
- ... to wake up and they were only successful by becoming more defensive: dropping a winger in 1986, playing five at the back in 1990. Before Maradona scored his second goal, England hadn’t had a shot at goal. ...
- Created on 14 July 1998
- 42. Worst of both worlds
- (World Cup 1998)
- ... When I arrived in Belgrade for the second leg I expected to witness support at its best. Yugoslav fans have had five years in the football wilderness and were now back in the big time. Carnival time, ...
- Created on 14 January 1998
- 43. War of words
- (Editorials)
- ... still mutter darkly, in German, about his second goal). After the match the ball was spirited away to Germany by Helmut Haller, who had scored the opening goal. Geoff himself doesn’t seem to have been ...
- Created on 14 June 1996
- 44. The Weah forward
- (Players)
- ... to Europe, sports cars, penthouses and football would top most shopping lists in the capital Monrovia, nudging even the desire for an AK 47 into second place. For Liberia is not so much third-world as ...
- Created on 14 March 1996
- 45. Ticket To The Moon: Aston Villa – The rise and fall of a European champion
- (Clubs)
- ... in their proper historical context, the Falklands War is now closer to the end of the Second World War than it is to the present day. If you can remember Rotterdam, pretty much everything is going make ...
- Created on 15 February 2019
- 46. "The supporters have backed me to the hilt": James Coppinger on 15 years at Doncaster
- (Stories)
- ... perfectly and he played a major role in achieving promotion to the Championship via the play-offs at the end of his fourth season, with a hat-trick in the semi-final second leg destruction of Southend ...
- Created on 07 January 2019
- 47. Zidane: The biography by Patrick Fort and Jean Philippe
- (Players)
- ... in the second halves of big matches) but very, very short on anything you might call a fresh revelation. The book’s obsequious attitude to Zidane is encapsulated by its decision to refer to him throughout ...
- Created on 12 September 2018
- 48. Back of the net flix: marketing is now masquerading as documentary
- (Stories)
- ... the narrative has shifted to a disastrous second relegation, an absentee owner and a flawed squad. Sunderland fans may anticipate its arrival this summer with dread, but the story has all the element ...
- Created on 20 August 2018
- 49. When Footballers Were Skint: A journey in search of the soul of football
- (General)
- ... in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War can seem wrapped in cliche: Brylcreemed players lived next door to the fans who cheered them on from the terraces, travelling to the match by bus and ...
- Created on 16 August 2018
- 50. What Griffin Park lacks in glamour it makes up for with simple joy
- (Stories)
- ... d them win the FA Cup final, the first I can remember, with Allan Clarke’s nonchalant diving header against Arsenal in 1972. My second team were Brentford. They were the opposite of First Division sid ...
- Created on 23 July 2018
