These Football Times

It’s the end of history as the Football League as we knew it entered its final season before some of its biggest cubs would gallop off over the horizon and into the warm embrace of the Premier League....

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Has Pep Guardiola’s incredible success imposed a tactical orthodoxy on the English game that sees too many teams trying to play the same way? Do we need a bit more originality, a little more of Jurgen...

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1990/91: where we went from Gazzamania after the World Cup to manic Gazza in the FA Cup final; where Arsenal’s near invincibles sent Liverpool to unravel; where a Mark Hughes strike set Manchester Uni...

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Gary Thacker continues to talk to the team about who they support. Why, best and worst moments, favourite players and those they’d like to forget plus the nuclear question: could you ever support anyo...

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Is the expansion and commercialisation of club football harming the spirit of the international game? Rob Fletcher, Aidan Williams and Gary Thacker look at the future for international football, ask w...

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A final hurrah for Liverpool, a surprising challenge from Villa Park that earns Graham Taylor the England job, Rangers march on under Graeme Souness while stealing the signature of Mo Johnston from un...

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It's been 50 years since Admiral took the football world by storm with the first of their range of kits that have become icons, from Leeds  to West Ham,  Coventry to Queen’s Park,  Spurs to Saudi and ...

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A number of the game’s top players have said they are being worked into the ground and have threatened strike action if something isn’t done about it. Are they right, or are they really carrying as he...

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