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Ah, Emile Heskey. You just can't hate him and yet if you asked someone why, an answer would prove difficult. The Englishman used to smash in goals for fun in his prime, and then more recently found he couldn't hit a...read more »

Back in the days of World War II, if you refused your call up to national service, you would be thrown into jail, beaten, and in some cases pelted with fruit. Obviously, refusing to kick a ball around while wearing an...read more »

Nowadays, footballers live in a lullaby of arousing affairs, classy clothing and (if I'm honest) mediocre metaphors. The 1950s marked the beginning of modern football and thus the modern footballer. Domestic leagues had begun to regain the strength they had prior to...read more »

An old, tired cliché in football is that certain clubs are ‘too big’ to go down. Such a phrase was possibly used the year Man City got relegated from the top flight in 1996 or when West Ham United suffered...read more »

Cast your mind back to 1st September 2001 and England fans are jubilant in their celebrations.  They have just witnessed their England side demolish their biggest rivals, Germany 5-1 in the Olympiastadion, München. Of the squad that donned the three lions...read more »

Let me begin by saying that the point of this article is not to say that Grant Holt is a bad player.  He is an old fashioned target man, more than capable of giving most defenders a hard time, and...read more »

Not only me but thousands of football fans were shocked when Aston Villa Football Club decided to appoint Alex McLeish as full time manager. This caused huge amounts of controversy surrounding Birmingham as Villa fans were totally against the appointment and...read more »

With January fast approaching, there could be a lot more action than usual in the mid-season window, mainly due to contract situations with so many players in the Premier League. With player power beginning to surface around the English top...read more »

There is no escaping the fact that the man has been blighted by injuries since March. Initially recovering from the injury he suffered only to experience a recurrence of the injury, he did manage to recover in time for the...read more »

Yet another successful qualification campaign out of the way and England’s passage to Euro 2012 secured you’d think fans across the country would be rejoicing. Not since 2004 and that fateful night in Lisbon have the national side contested a...read more »