Mighty Micky Quinn certainly made an impact on his Newcastle United debut back in 1989. The new arrival from Portsmouth bagged four goals on the opening day of the season to help give the Magpies a 5-2 victory against Leeds United at St James Park. The striker went on to become the league top goal […]
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I wasn’t born when the Derby County team assembled by Brian Clough stormed out of the second division and rose onto become the champions of England. But my dad was and I’m surprised that he refrained from naming me Colin, Roy or Kevin, after one of his heroes. Brian Clough and Peter Taylor may have […]
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Sid Lambert is a 43-year-old man playing Retro Football Manager on his iPhone. He’s gone back to 1995/96 to take over Newcastle United and put right what once went wrong: beat Manchester United to the title. And he’d love it if he beat them. Love it. We’re six games into the season and it’s fair […]
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In 2020, Leeds United renamed the South Stand at Elland Road to ‘The Norman Hunter Stand’ as a permanent tribute to late club legend Norman ‘bite yer legs’ Hunter.
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“The greatest player in the world” That was the view that then-Scotland manager Tommy Docherty had of Hotshot. Eddie Gray’s view is that you wouldn’t get a Lorimer in today’s market for £50-60m. It was while playing for Scottish Schoolboys against England at Hampden that Gray first saw just how good a player Lorimer was, […]
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Former England midfielder sadly passed away 20 year’s ago today. What a player he was! RIP Rocky.
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