Displaying items by tag: Football
Thursday, 15 February 2018 12:06
The Rise and Rise of Jamie Vardy
No other English professional footballer in the 21st century has made quite the rise from non-league to top-flight stardom like Jamie Vardy. The 31-year-old’s leap to stardom has been likened to a real-life version of the comic book classic, Roy of the Rovers, who used to defy the odds as Rovers’ leading marksman.
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Wednesday, 07 February 2018 16:54
Remembering Blackburn Rovers' Title Win Of 1994/95
Last spring, Blackburn Rovers gained the unwanted distinction of being the first Premier League championship-winning club to drop into the third tier of English football. Inevitably, Blackburn’s relegation to League 1 at the end of 2016/17 precipitated a slew of stark comparisons, between the current Venky’s regime and the ownership of steel magnate Jack Walker in the 1990s.
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Thursday, 25 January 2018 11:39
An Ode to Jimmy Greaves
Jimmy Greaves is the greatest finisher that England's ever seen,
He was presician personified inside the penalty area, a goalscoring machine. Greavsie was born on 20th February 1940 in the Capital's East End, And years later shockwaves and tremors through our lands defences Jimmy Greaves would send.
He was presician personified inside the penalty area, a goalscoring machine. Greavsie was born on 20th February 1940 in the Capital's East End, And years later shockwaves and tremors through our lands defences Jimmy Greaves would send.
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Tuesday, 23 January 2018 18:00
Premier League Legends
The term legend is probably bandied about too frequently nowadays, but in the Premier League, a smattering of players certainly deserve the tag. The likes Ryan Giggs, Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry, Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira, Gary Neville, Ashley Cole , Dennis Bergkamp, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba and Paul Scholes
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Wednesday, 17 January 2018 20:08
Big C – An Ode to Cyrille Regis
Power and pace a footballing ace,
Frightened defenders all over the place.
Strong in the air a duel if you dare,
Aggressive and tough honest and fair
Frightened defenders all over the place.
Strong in the air a duel if you dare,
Aggressive and tough honest and fair
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Thursday, 11 January 2018 11:48
80’s Casuals Tee-Shirts Reviewed
As the legend goes in the world of Terrace Culture that the Casual movement was spawned by the travelling Liverpool supporters in the late 70s and early 80s. Who, in between watching Liverpool FC win four European cups in those decades, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81 and 1983–84, partying, fighting and sightseeing,
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Thursday, 11 January 2018 11:19
The Working Man Has Lost His Simple Game
Ain't football changed a couple of generations ago it was such a simple game,
For those were the halcyon days when it was a sport then it changed into a business when the money came.
For those were the halcyon days when it was a sport then it changed into a business when the money came.
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Tuesday, 21 November 2017 17:46
Where Have All The Hard Men Gone?
Stare down in the tunnel, crunching the tackle midway through the first half, square up to the ref in the second, red card. The life of a football hard man was a simple one, but it’s a life no more. Football’s true hard men are a dying…no, an extinct breed and it’s a crying shame.
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Monday, 30 October 2017 17:20
George Best
George Best was an artist whose canvas was the grass,
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Thursday, 28 September 2017 09:26
Shanks " The Greatest Inspiration”
In 1913, Glenbuck Ayrshire the year before the first world war begun, Bill Shankly entered the world not knowing that one day he'd be Liverpool's most famous adopted Son.
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