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Panini: Mexico 86
As far as my own childhood sticker-collecting activities are concerned, Panini's Mexico 86 collection was the very pinnacle of all that I did. Slightly too young to fully appreciate the 1982 World Cup...
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Football Attic Podcast 18 - Get involved!
Attention audio aficionados!We're pleased to announce that we'll be recording our 18th Football Attic Podcast over the weekend of 24/25 May 2014, and as ever, we'd like you to be a part of it!Once...
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FIFA World Cup - In captions (Part 3)
The concluding part of our series looking at the style and design of TV captions during the World Cup.World Cup 1998The French have a saying: 'plus ça change'. Roughly translated, it means 'the more...
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The Football Attic Podcast 18 - World Cup Top 3s
The 2014 World Cup is less than a month away, so what better way to mark that occasion than by talking for an hour and a half about previous World Cups? We've done that before? What? Naaaaah! This is...
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Commercial Break: Match Weekly 'Quiz Disc' (1981)
Back at the start of January 2014, we recorded Football Attic Podcast 15 on the subject of Shoot! and Match magazine, and as has become traditional, we put out an appeal ahead of the recording to ask...
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Up For The World Cup (1986)
Under what circumstances can a large piece of printed paper be given such reverence and adoration? When it is printed with the fixtures for the first World Cup to ever ignite your growing love of...
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Fantasy Nostalgia: How to get Scotland into World Cup Round 2...
Football is full of traditions. Whether it's the need to go for a pre-match pint of beer or the irresistible desire to support the little team in a 'David v Goliath' cup tie, there are some things we...
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Panini's World Cup 'Nearly Men'
Question: What connects the following football players? Andy Gray, Carlos Alberto, Ruud Gullit, Kenny Dalglish, Eder, Phil Neville and Robert Pires.Need a few more clues? How about Steven Gerrard,...
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World Cup super groups
In case you hadn't noticed, we're coming to the end of that beautiful bubble known as 'the First Round of the World Cup'. It's beautiful because the 32 greatest footballing nations in the world are...
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Retro Random Video: ITV World Cup 78 (again)
Way back at the start of the year, we brought you a wonderful video clip (courtesy of our good friend Geoff Downs) that showed just what ITV's coverage of the 1978 World Cup was like. In short, it had...
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The Football Attic Podcast 19 - World Cup Films
What better way to celebrate the spectacle that is a World Cup Finals than by distilling all the excitement and drama of four weeks of football into a 90 minute film... with all that excitement and...
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The Football Attic Podcast World Cup Extra No.1
There's a World Cup on don't ya know! To that end, Rich teamed up with Jay from DesignFootball.com to discuss the competition so far.The original plan was to record one a week, but as you may well know...
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Review: 'Admiral: Kit Man' by Bert Patrick
These days it seems perfectly acceptable to discuss football kit design without having any knowledge of its bounteous history. The trouble is, few people can speak with any authority about the...
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Chris O's Favourite 5... Commentators
It's been a long while since we've had a 'Favourite 5' on the Football Attic website, but it struck me the other day that there's been a glaring omission from the series that's covered everything from...
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Podcast 20 - We Want Your Memories!
No it's not a new podcast...yet... Also, no, it's not some kind of mid-80s Twilight Zone episode!We'll soon be recording the 20th Football Attic podcast and, as that's some kind of important number...
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League Ladders
It won't be long before the domestic football season starts again. Hopes of success will be uppermost in our minds as we finally put to one side the pre-season tournaments given hollow reverence by Sky...
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Football Tat We've Owned Number 1 - Euro 96 Plasters
While both of us here in the Attic love football ephemera (in fact, that was nearly the name of this blog), Chris tends to stick to the, shall we say, quality end of the scale of football collectibles....
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The Football Attic Podcast 20 - A Football Attic Retrospective
The Football Attic is nearly 3 years old and we've reached the milestone that is our 20th Podcast... so what better way (any?) to celebrate than with a bit of good old fashioned back slapping?So, for...
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League of Blogs 2014
Yes folks it's League of Blogs time again!What's 'League of Blogs' I hear some of you ask? Well, you can have a look at the entire history of the project here or take a look back at last year's and...
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The Guinness Book of Soccer Facts & Feats (1979)
There was a day, long, long ago, when the name of Guinness loomed large in the literary world. You could buy The Guinness Book of Car Facts & Feats, The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles, The...
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