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In a new feature for the DA, Andrew Allen takes a look at football in parts of the world less documented. If your team is in the Europa League, you may want to take notes from time to time…
Andrew Allen is the editor of whenwewereheroes.com
Having won the coin toss ahead of their clash with England on November 17th 1993 it is quite possible that the eleven men representing San Marino considered flicking Graham Taylor’s squad the finger before cheekily skipping off for an early bath. After all, victories, even ones achieved by chance, had been distinctly hard to come by for the men in blue.
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Dominic Pollard takes up the mantle of ‘Rule Master’ able to alter the rules of football with just one click of his fingers and a sinister smile….
In the first of what will hopefully become an enriching series of posts, I, the Rule Master, am going to examine how the game of football could be revolutionised with the introduction of a range of different rules. Like Barry Hearn, John Douglas – the 9th Marquess of Queensberry – and Sepp Blatter all rolled into one, I shall break from our age old traditions and throw the proverbial cat amongst the pigeons to explore new ways of improving the supposedly ‘beautiful game’.
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Richard Cutcher delves into the football video doing the Internet rounds this week.
There’s only one place to start this week. And there are no words…
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Richard Cutcher delves into the football video doing the Internet rounds this week.
So it turns out Jose Mourinho has just been copying some Romanian in a snazzy leather jacket for the last six years…
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Richard Cutcher delves into the football video doing the Internet rounds this week.
We’ve had some pretty random s**t over the past weeks so lets get to basics. Set-piece innovation at its best…
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Richard Cutcher delves into the football video doing the Internet rounds this week.
This is truly the weirdest football incident I have ever seen. And quite upsetting…
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Richard Cutcher delves into the football video doing the Internet rounds this week.
Silvio Berlusconi has single handily ensured the world need no reminding just how passionate the Italian people are. But just in case you needed a second opinion… (0.30 onwards for emotional commentary)
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Richard Cutcher delves into the football video doing the Internet rounds this week.
Whatever you think of El Hadji Diouf, you have to begrudgingly respect his control for not walloping Scott Brown on Sunday. Spanish U21, Victor Ruiz, did not act quite so controlled on Tuesday night though…
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Andrew Allen is deputy editor at sport.co.uk
Every now and then committing to life as a penniless football journalist pays dividends – after roughly two and a half years working at Sport.co.uk I finally received my first invitation to travel abroad on a work related jolly…(cough) I mean business trip.
I say first, I was once offered the salivating prospect of three days in Spain watching beach volleyball…and yes, it did turn out to be too good to be true. I politely declined when it was revealed I was due in the front row of the men’s World Cup for 72 hours of non-stop budgie smuggling action. If I want dodgy male related beach ball antics I’ll just follow Darren Bent’s career. Talking of which, £24 million Monsieur Houllier? What could possibly be the need when you have Emile Heskey waiting in the wings?
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Continuing our season of the best video clips we’ve seen throughout the year.