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Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever - Round 2
It's time for Round 2 of The Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever!Round 1 ended on Friday and the results can be viewed here.But now it's time for the big guns to enter the fray as the 32 seeded sponsors join...
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Official Programme of the 1970 World Cup
A cheery red cover invites you to thumb through the 66 pages of this souvenir programme created as a guide to the 1970 World Cup. Priced at just six shillings (or 30p for any Brits harbouring decimal...
View ArticleVideoblog 2: Kick-Off (MB Games)
Chris O returns with the second Football Attic Videoblog, this time taking MB's Kick-Off as its subject.
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Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever - Round 3
We've reached Round 3 - The Round of 16 - of The Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever!Round 2 ended on Friday and the results can be viewed here. And what a set of results they are! Hitachi defeated by Avco,...
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Great Tracksuits of Our Time: No.5
Our good friend Rich Nelson from the always excellent 'Escape To Suomi') provides us with this contribution to our 'Great Tracksuits' series:Arsenal (1989/90):"With a design most associated with the...
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Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever - Round 4
Yes it's Round 4 - The Round of 16 - of The Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever!Round 3 finished yesterday (Thursday) and as usual the results can be viewed here. Coventry finally bowed out to frankly more...
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Kevin Keegan's Soccer Annual 1977
By the time this annual had been published in 1976, the pastey-looking footballer on the front cover was well on his way to 100 top flight goals in England. Kevin Keegan was already something of a...
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Matthew Wassell's Top 5... Pogs
We're pleased to welcome backMatthew Wassell to The Football Attic with another Top 5 list - this time on a popular collectable game from a couple of decades ago...For a craze that lasted roughly one...
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Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever - Quarter Finals
From the 96 came just 8 - It's The Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever Quarter Finals!Round 4 ended last night and there were several more shock exits. Both of Liverpool's remaining entries took a bow,...
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Subbuteo poster, 1983
Nothing could be more guaranteed to brighten up a young child’s bedroom wall than a Subbuteo poster. It’s been proven scientifically, probably. By the time this masterpiece came out in 1983, the...
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Great Tracksuits of Our Time: No.6
The sixth installment in our 'Great Tracksuits' series comes courtesy of Sam Swaffield, co-editor of The Seagull Love Review. A devout Brighton fan, Sam's keen to draw our attention to the apparel worn...
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Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever - Semi Finals
So we're down to the final four, and despite it looking like the Final was to be a re-run of the 1986 Milk Cup Final between Oxford and QPR, fate has intervened and made it a semi final encounter...
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Pelé's Soccer, 1980
At what point does the human brain reject the hopelessly inadequate images of our youth and demand something with more detail and clarity?This question is most apposite when discussing classic video...
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Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever - The Final
Newcastle Brown & Wang! No, not a night out on Tyneside... well, maybe it is for some, but no, not here my fellows, for this is the Final of the Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever!!!After starting out...
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Puma ads (Manchester United), circa 1978
What do Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Allan Simonsen, Jimmy Greenhoff, Brian Greenhoff, Andy Gray, Johan Cruyff, Chelsea FC, the Austrian national team and the Argentinian national team have in...
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Panini: Football 80
I’m a big fan of the ‘white album’. Some say it epitomised the peak of popular culture around the time of its release but I have a more balanced point of view. For me, It was experimental in certain...
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The Football Attic Podcast Episode 3 - Retro Football Kit Design
What do you get if you cross someone with chronic insomnia, a bloke on the other side of the world and a geektastic level of enthusiasm for football kits?The answer lies within the next 50 minutes of...
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The Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever is... Wang!
Yes, it's official - after seven weeks of rigorous voting and contentious debate, The Football Attic is proud to proclaim Wang as the Greatest Shirt Sponsor Ever!The former American computer giant,...
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Things That Dreams Are Made Of - Arena 2000
At some point in history, Coventry City used to be in the promised land that is The Premiership. Towards the end of the 1990s, the last decade they occupied their perennial 17th place, several clubs...
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The Football Attic Podcast Episode 4 - Subbuteo
Like buses in a lame joke, you wait ages for an Attic podcast and then several turn up at once!Yes you lucky people, we're here again! This time we decided to waffle on about Subbuteo and we did so for...
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