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Retro Round-Up: 25 April 2013
As if to prove that The Football Attic can't keep the football memories of yesteryear alive on its own, we bring you our weekly selection of top posts and news items from around the globe...When...
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Attic Podcast 8 - Memorabilia Collecting
Once again we bring you two podcasts separated by a matter of days, although they were recorded a matter of minutes apart... who cares???This time we discuss the exciting (stick with me!) topic of...
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World Cup - A Daily Mirror Special (1970)
It can never be underestimated just how much English football fans were looking forward to the 1970 World Cup. Having hosted and won the 1966 tournament, England were ready to take on anyone that dared...
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Retro Random Video: Man United NOT appearing on Top of the Pops
We've seen it so often before, the sight of a football team appearing on Top of the Pops, singing (or rather 'miming') badly to their latest chart hit (if indeed 'hit' is the word we're looking for...
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The Worst of Modern Football?
Here in the Attic, we love the "good old days"! This doesn't mean we don't like football now, but there are some things we just can't stand!What with the growing Against Modern Football movement and a...
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Retro Round-Up - 3 May 2013
Our weekly selection of the best football nostalgia stuff on the web this week...Make a donation and ensure Jimmy Case’s autobiography ‘Hard Case’ goes into print - details over at The Goldstone...
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FA Cup Final Day - ITV-style (Part 1)
With just seven days to go until the 2013 FA Cup Final, we begin a week-long series of FA Cup-themed articles here on The Football Attic..If you heard our recent podcast called 'FA Cup Memories',...
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Continuing FA Cup Final Week here at The Football Attic, we present a video montage showing the front covers of all of the FA Cup Final match-day programmes from 1946 onwards.Pick your favourites, pick...
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Great Tracksuits of Our Time: No.14 - FA Cup Special
Not long to go now until FA Cup Final Day, so let's look back to 1978 when two rather fine tracksuit tops graced the biggest game in the English football calendar.The scene was Wembley, the teams were...
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FA Cup Final Day - ITV-style (Part 2)
The second and final part of our look at the way ITV's World of Sport created a Cup Final Day experience for all of us watching in on the box.1976Duration: 12pm to 5.10pmEveryone remembers the novelty...
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Retro Round-Up - 10 May 2013
Greetings, everyone, and welcome to another review of this week's best blog posts and other web-related curiosities from the world of football nostalgia.If The Football Attic isn't enough to sustain...
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Clive - The 'Other' 1923 FA Cup Final Horse
The 1923 FA Cup Final is remembered for many things; it was the first final at the all new Empire Stadium at Wembley, 900 people were injured due to the over-capacity crowd, Bolton's second goal was...
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The Unofficial FA Cup Championship
If any of you are aware of the Unofficial World Football Championships, you'll know about the simple unadulterated joy of considering a 'World Cup' where the reigning champions are decided on a...
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The FA Cup Winner's Parade - Coventry 87
We're not quite done here in the Attic with FA Cup Week. Although the final may be over and the victors handed the cup, there's still one piece of FA Cup folklore to be examined...the winner's open top...
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The Worst of Modern Football Vote - Round 1
What's the Worst Thing about Modern Football?A while ago we asked for your thoughts on the worst aspects of modern football...and you responded with full on vitriol!We've ended up with 48 excellent...
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Retro Round-Up - 17 May 2013
After the relentless parade of FA Cup articles we brought you last week on The Football Attic, this week's been a little quieter for us post-wise, but fortunately there are lots of other like-minded...
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Panini: Euro Football 79
My failing memory doesn't recall Panini's Euro Football 79 being on sale in the UK when I was a kid. If that's the case, it's an almighty shame because this, for me, was one of the best Panini sticker...
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Lion comic t-shirt ad, 1972
It's the gift that every football-loving child of the early 1970's wanted - a t-shirt featuring the face of Kevin Keegan with a black eye. And yours for only 92p!But not only that - if you were a...
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What's the Worst Thing about Modern Football? - Round 2Wow! What can we say other than WOW! The response to this has been absolutely fantastic!!!The work continues however...we may have shed the likes...
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The Greatest England Home Kit Ever 1965-2013
So now we know. The new England home kit by Nike has been launched and whether we like it or not, we're stuck with it for a whole year. It can now take it's place alongside all the other England home...
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