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The Ford Sporting League (1970/71)
The first full football season of the 1970's was a turning point in the history of the English game, for it was at this point that companies first started sponsoring club competitions. With ticket...
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Videoblog 5: World Cup Soccer (Macmillan Software)
If you thought all football computer games were about moving pixelated players around a pitch and scoring goals, think again. Back in 1986, one piece of software tried to entertain and educate kids...
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League of Blogs 2014 Deadline - Fri 10th October
All good things must come to an end...as does everything else...Several people have asked if they're too late to join the League of Blogs and the answer right now is "NO!"If you're asking on the 11th...
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Catalogue of Eras: Littlewoods - Spring & Summer 1982
"Like discovering a whole new shopping world in your own home", mail order catalogues have offered people a tempting glimpse through the looking glass into retail heaven for decades. By thumbing...
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The Football Attic Podcast Extra No.2 - Vintage Era Football
The Football Attic loves going back to the 1970's and 1980's in search of fabulous nostalgia, but what happens when you go back even further - long before the Second World War and back further still to...
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The Football Attic Podcast World Cup Extra No.2
Rich and Jay from DesignFootball.com are back to finish off their review of the recent World Cup!We were going to cover other stuff too, but ended up quite engrossed in the land of FIFA so consider...
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Commercial Break 2
It’s time once again to dip into the advertising archives as The Football Attic finds a short selection of British TV adverts that all take their inspiration from the world of football.Sit back and...
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Last Chance To Enter The Last Ever League of Blogs
Last chance? Last ever? That sounds like an awful lot of finality... and it is...There's just over three weeks left to get your entries in for the League of Blogs 2014, but not only that - it's...
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FKS: Soccer Stars 80
It's my firm belief that FKS should probably have been renamed 'NCM' around the start of the 1980's. 'Non compos mentis' is a fair description of what their football sticker collections were like back...
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Catalogue of Eras: Marshall Ward - Autumn and Winter 1975-76
Once again it's time to plunge into the long-forgotten world of mail order catalogues as we search for football-related delights to remind us of an innocent time before the internet went and spoiled...
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The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever!
Way back in August 2012, on our second ever podcast, we covered the subject of football computer games and it was a whole heap of fun!Chris and I were discussing the subject again recently while also...
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The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever: First Round
How do you like your video game football? Do you like the excitement of scoring goals out on the pitch, or do you prefer the cerebral challenge of managing your team to glory?Either way, the world of...
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World Soccer: August 1981
With less than a year to go until the 1982 World Cup, there was much concern among the writers of World Soccer. Concern over Spain's readiness to host the tournament, concern over England's ability to...
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The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever: Semi Finals
Welcome back to the Greatest Retro Football Video Game vote-off where we find ourselves at the semi-final stage!We had a great response to the First Round of our competition, so thank you to everyone...
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Subbuteo: Short-Sided Variations
Think of Subbuteo and you think of eleven plastic men pitted against eleven on a big green cloth pitch. It was ever thus; in its simplistic form, Subbuteo was nothing if not a beguiling interpretation...
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The Greatest Retro Football Video Game: Semi Final result
The last five days of voting are finally over and now we can announce who has reached our Greatest Retro Football Video Game Final!Thanks to all the votes you registered, we ended up with a clear...
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Fantasy Nostalgia: Liverpool wear Admiral
When I recently read Bert Patrick's book all about the history of Admiral, legendary kit makers to the great and good of British football, one episode sent my mind into a tailspin. It was the section...
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The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever: The Final
And so it's come to this... Fifty of the greatest retro football video game titles have been whittled down to just two. Falling by the wayside have been the classic and the clumsy, the majestic and the...
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Match Facts Football Yearbook 87/88
It's oft claimed that kids of today spend all their time in their rooms on their computers or consoles, while the youth of our day did nothing but play out from morn til night. I have a teenage stepson...
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The Game (ITV, 1991)
I have no experience of playing non-league football myself. I was always let down by a less than sylph-like physique and was perpetually, to use the common parlance, 'carrying too much timber' in my...
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