A fresh faced Wayne Rooney with his battered #Adidas Tango from playing football on the streets. Jumpers for goalposts playing headers and volleys. Happy memories for many of us.
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RIP Thunder Boots
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Liverpool 3 Manchester United 3 1988
A classic 3-3 encounter at Anfield back in 1988 between arch rivals Liverpool and Manchester United. The visitors from down the M62 took the lead through Captain Marvel Bryan Robson before Liverpool hit back in style with three goals from Beardsley, Gillespie and McMahon. At 3-1 down at Anfield, things got worse for the travelling […]
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Ray ‘Butch’ Wilkins
Footballing Icons: Gianfranco ZOLA
Buy the shirt at 3Retro here Chelsea 1998 ECWC Final No25 Zola shirt As worn by Gianfranco Zola the No25 shirt Worn in the European Cup Winners Cup victory against Stuttgart which was played in Stockholm Chelsea won 1-0 with the only goal coming from the clubs voted best ever player Gianfranco Zola.
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Willie, a World Cup pioneer.
In England 1966, ‘World Cup Willie’ became the first of his kind when he became the first mascot to appear in a FIFA World Cup finals, a trend that has been carried on to this day. The inaugural Willie was a typical symbol of the United Kingdom, a Lion dressed in red, white and blue from […]
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Our Top 3 Retro England Shirts
The years have not always been kind to football fashion, the nineties seemed to be a testing ground for unholy splashes of colour and some patterns which belong on the curtains at your nans house, not on a football stripe. Us England fans, have had our fair share of fashion faux pas – May we […]
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Blood, sweat and tears.
On Thursday 14th November 2019, England’s senior men’s team reached the impressive milestone of 1000 international games. There has been plenty of ups and downs along the way, as well as the odd penalty shoot-out heartbreak, but also some amazing moments that brought a nation together and pints being flung across venues up and down the […]
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