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Fantasy Nostalgia: Shirt Sponsorship in the 1960s
What would the football kits of English football teams have looked like if shirt sponsorship had arrived a decade earlier, during the late-1960's? Go on, admit it - you've been wondering about that,...
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Sitting Alongside - The Golden Age of Co-Commentary: Part 2
Continuing our look at the great, the good and the trying-hard-not-to-be-embarrassing from the world of football co-commentary...Charlton, JackThe older of the Charlton brothers barely had a chance to...
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Cadbury's Soccerbar (1973)
First, there was chocolate...Then there was football...(Actually both came into being around the same time, especially where commercially produced chocolate is concerned, but that's to deviate from the...
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Preview: Football Attic Podcast 22
This Saturday, March 8th, we'll be recording Episode 22 of The Football Attic Podcast - and we'll be interviewing a very special guest, author Greg Lansdowne.Greg's new book, 'Stuck On You: The Rise...
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Panini: Football 83
In 1983, Panini did for football players what Morecambe & Wise did for Angela Rippon. Where before there was a tidal wave of heads and faces, now there were legs everywhere - hundreds of them...
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The Football Attic Podcast 22 - Panini Special
Football sticker enthusiasts: you have reached your aural Valhalla! The Football Attic is proud to present 80 minutes of discussion on the subject of sticker collecting featuring our very special...
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Field of Screens - Five Great Football Documentaries
It's been a while since our last guest post, but we're delighted to welcome Dave Burin to The Football Attic who tells us about five excellent football documentaries - all available to watch via...
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Golden Goals (1972)
When I was a kid in the early 1980s, a trip to the local petrol station in my Dad's car didn't provide much in the way of excitement for me. Having filled up the tank and handed over his money in the...
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Preview: Football Attic Podcast 23
Greetings Podcast lovers and Attic dwellers!Here's a quick message to let you know we're recording Podcast 23 in a couple of days' time, and this one has the simple working title of 'Best and...
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The World At Their Feet - Official Film of the 1970 World Cup
It’s a little known fact that several decades ago, the United Nations passed a resolution whereby ‘all references to the 1970 World Cup must mention the 1966 World Cup at some point.’ Applying only to...
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The Football Attic Podcast 23 - Best & Worst
Hi folks! It's podcast time again!So which exciting subject are we covering this time? We're not...nope! Rather than talk endlessly about one subject we decided to have fund and do a 'Best & Worst'...
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Worst. Penalty. Ever.
No-one ever said it was impossible not to score from the penalty spot, but at the very least you shouldn't be far off if you miss. The penalty spot, after all, is only 11 metres away (give or take a...
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Saint & Greavsie's DVD Football Quiz, 2006
What lucky people we are! As you probably know by now, we love bringing you guest posts written by fabulous writers, and here's another one penned by top blogger Rich Nelson!Rich recently came up with...
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Collectables in 1991-92
If you've recently read Greg Lansdowne's excellent book 'Stuck On You: The Rise & Fall… & Rise Of Panini Stickers', you'll know how much detail he managed to cram into 256 pages about the...
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Fantasy Nostalgia: Fantasy League 1971/72
Well, there may only be a few weeks of the 1971/72 Football League season left, but we're quietly confident that our Fantasy League team's going to romp home to victory.Oh alright then - here's who...
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The Football Attic's Hit Parade: Glory Glory Leeds United
And before you ask, that apostrophe in the title was put there to prevent all kinds of misinterpretation, for this is a new series looking at the world of football and its variable attempts to create...
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Sitting Alongside - The Golden Age of Co-Commentary: Part 3
The final part of our look at the men who commented on football, but not well enough to sit in John Motson's seat.Keegan, KevinAn early example of the superstar footballer snapped up by TV to give a...
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The Football Attic's Hit Parade: We're Gonna Do It Again
It's a warm welcome back now to Dave Burin who continues our series on the great and not-so-great musical exploits of football teams down the years...Who, or what, is Stryker? He remains the Ali Dia...
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England's Elusive Missing Moments: The 1966 Saga
Peter Prentice recently embarked upon an odyssey to find out what happened to some TV footage pertaining to England's finest football hour. Why did it disappear and what did it contain? Here, Peter...
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Videoblog 7: Football kit design folder
Way back in March 2012, I wrote an article called 'I was a teenage kit designer'. In it, I confessed that in my early-20's, I went through a short phase of designing football kits using nothing more...
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