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The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever - Final result
After nearly a month of voting, we can now finally announce the winner of our contest to decide The Football Attic's Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever... and here's how you voted!Yes, friends,...
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Help Fight Cancer & Win a Kit Collection Book!
Earlier this year, Rich finally got round to photographing his ridiculously large kit collection. He then spent far too much time creating a photobook of them all (reviewed here by kit book legend John...
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Panini: Football 82
Let's see who's looking through the... ROUND window...Yes, Panini's 1982 collection featured players gurning, grimacing and squinting through a circular frame on many of its 516 stickers. It was the...
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Got Not Got CCFC & Kit Book Review
Last year we reviewed the 2nd incarnation of the retro football bible, Got, Not Got and a few of the spin off titles that were starting to appear alongside it. There's no new version this year as...
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Videoblog 6: The Encyclopedia of World Football (Marshall Cavendish, 1980)
Way back in July 2013 when we recorded our podcast on Football Books, Rich asked Chris whether there were any books he loved enough to warrant him running back into a burning house to rescue from its...
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Whatever Happened To... Nasal Strips?
Tunes, it seems, are not the only thing that help you breathe more easily. For a short spell in the mid- to late-1990's, another ingenious device - some say a fad - proved just as adept at opening your...
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Crimes Against Design: Shoot League Ladders
Where football nostalgia is concerned, there are few things that can rightly call themselves 'legendary' like Shoot's League Ladders. We've discussed them at length before and spoke of them in...
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The Football Attic's Top 30 Retro Football Twitter Accounts
If football nostalgia's what you live for, then indulging in your passion is what makes life so great - and where better to do that than on Twitter where the world is undoubtedly your oyster?In the 33...
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Chris O's Festive 5 - Subbuteo Christmas Presents
I was rather lucky, really. During my childhood, Christmas always delivered some wonderful presents to me every year, some of which were on the list I'd made, some of which weren't. I was never left...
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Fantasy Nostalgia: The Football Shirt Collection
Imagine a fantasy world where the greatest artists, designers and illustrators known to mankind work alongside football kit manufacturers to create Premier League team shirts...Imagine...-- by Chris...
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The Best of Collecting Panini!
Figurine Panini - two words etched into the childhood memories of seemingly every boy that ever lived. Who can forget the palpable excitement of walking into a newsagents, asking for two packets of...
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The Football Attic Podcast 21 - Christmas Special
It's Christmas Eve (Christmas Day where Chris is) and Rich and Chris are selflessly giving up their time to waffle on about football related Christmas presents they got...or maybe wanted, but never did...
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Catalogue of Eras: Freemans - Autumn and Winter 1979
It's Christmastime... there's no need to be afraid... That's because your Mum bought all your presents back in October using her Freemans mail-order catalogue. Who needs to go into a shop to buy...
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England v Yugoslavia programme, 1986
England's exit from the 1986 World Cup may have been a little earlier than fans would have liked, but everything was going to be alright. Bobby Robson's side were now brimming with confidence and...
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The Worst of Collecting Panini
A few weeks ago, we gave you the first part of our double-header where we look at the ying and yang of collecting Panini stickers. Previously, we explored the delirium that could be gained from the...
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Billy Hamilton's Football Academy (1985)
Many have tried and failed to encapsulate the world of football in a board game. Whether it be the thrill of scoring goals in a big match or the mental discipline required to manage a great team, you...
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Chris O's Favourite 5... World Cup Shirt Number Fonts
Let's just put to one side the slight awkwardness of the title and instead spend a moment or two considering shirt numbers. First seen in 1924 and not used on a regular basis until around a decade...
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Sitting Alongside - The Golden Age of Co-Commentary: Part 1
When idly passing by an hour or two, it's greatly satisfying to recall happy memories of long hot summers, pre-decimal coinage and the sweets you used to buy from the corner shop on your way to school....
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Football Crazy (1977)
The school tuck shop. A place where for decades juveniles have queued up, exchanged money for substandard food and consumed the very things they acquired, purely for pleasure alone. 'Nutritional...
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Goal Frames We Have Known and Loved: No.3
Empire Stadium, Gżira, Malta:Look closely at the grainy black-and-white image above and you'll see something rather spectacular. It's a set of goalposts made entirely out of pelican crossing...
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