Remembering Coca-Cola’s strange but brilliant ‘Win a Player’ competition
Revisiting Pelé’s bizarre FIFA 100 list: ‘I’m behind 11 Frenchmen? It’s a joke’
‘My header is bad’ – A definitive guide to Ronaldo fan sites of the early 2000s
Nostalgia
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Nostalgia10 of the best playmakers of the 90s: Zizou, Laudrup, Baggio, Bergkamp…
Who is your favourite playmaker from the 1990s?
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NostalgiaA tribute to Eidur Gudjohnsen, football’s equivalent to Forrest Gump
Eidur Gudjohnsen played alongside both Ronaldo and…
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NostalgiaA tribute to Alex, the Fenerbahçe hero & best Brazilian you’d forgotten about
No, not that one. The other one.
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NostalgiaRemembering Andrea Dossena’s four days as a Liverpool hero
If you don't score many, make them memorable.
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NostalgiaWhat happened to Darío Conca, once the world’s third highest-paid player?
To be fair, Conca probably justified the money.
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NostalgiaComparing the Liverpool team Houllier inherited to the one he passed to Rafa
Gerard Houllier did a lot of good at Liverpool.
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NostalgiaA history of Steve Bruce and Wigan’s love affair with Honduran footballers
It was all thanks to Arsene Wenger...
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NostalgiaA tribute to Pavel Nedvěd, the man who successfully replaced Zinedine Zidane
He replaced Zizou and stayed for eight years.
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NostalgiaGlenn Hoddle: If we’d beaten Argentina, we could have won WC98
Glenn Hoddle still rues that Argentina defeat.
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NostalgiaRemembering when Hatem Ben Arfa scored the best goal ever… twice
Hatem Ben Arfa scored two worldies in three months
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NostalgiaCelebrating Keane & Berbatov’s brilliant chalk-and-cheese Spurs partnership
A partnership Spurs fans will never forget.
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NostalgiaJavier Saviola: The ‘little rabbit’ who almost became a world-beater
Javier Saviola was meant to be the new Maradona.
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NostalgiaA tribute to Dwight Yorke & successfully combining playing with partying
Dwight Yorke came to have a good time. And he did.
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NostalgiaAmr Zaki: From ‘better than Messi’ to worse than Mido and then obscurity
Whatever happened to Amr Zaki?
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NostalgiaCelebrating Mario Balotelli’s ‘shoulder goal’, one of *the* great PL moments
This was Mario Balotelli at his cantankerous best.
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NostalgiaRivaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho: Milan’s mixed success with the three Rs
To be fair, you can't blame Milan for trying.
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NostalgiaA tribute to Ariel Ortega, a frustrating rebel you couldn’t help but love
Ariel Ortega played football by his own rules.
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NostalgiaDenílson: From the world’s most expensive player to snubbed by Bolton
Denílson had a really strange career.
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NostalgiaA forensic analysis of the day Thierry Henry smashed four past Leeds United
Maybe Paul Robinson was the real victim here.
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NostalgiaA tribute to free-kick king Juninho Pernambucano, football’s god of chaos
'He was the first album with the original lineup.'