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The beautiful game: Pelé, Didi and the origins of football’s most tiresome cliche

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Examining how the phrase came to be so commonplace tells us a lot about the way in which the sport developed and spread around the world

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From the archive ~ Preconceptions and terrible toilets: the life of a female fan

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Women’s football has made huge progress both on the pitch and in the stands but there is still work to be done – as Linda Sharples highlighted in May 1991

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Italia 90 “cop cards” – the innovative, collectable way to fight crime

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For some reason police forces once thought the lure of collecting cards depicting Ian Snodin in an England shirt would stop people committing crime

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Illegal payments, blackmail and Herbert Chapman – the sorry tale of Leeds City

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Before Leeds United proved that the city can support a top-flight football club, Leeds City showed exactly how not to do it in 15 years of chaos

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From the archive ~ Remembering Jossy’s Giants: ground evictions and girl problems

 

Glipton’s teenage stars captivated a generation of adolescents with their comic microcosm of the evolving football world in the late 1980s

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