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Remembered! When nobody but Liverpool won the League Cup
By Richard Edwards last updated
Rich Edwards recalls a time when success in the competition was a matter of course for the Merseysiders
Bullfighter, stamper… legend: why Juanito is an all-time Real Madrid hero
By Andrew Murray published
Action Replay No Madrid player is more beloved by die-hard Blancos than the irascible wideman, who died in a car crash at 37 – though Lothar Matthaus wasn’t a fan...
When Portsmouth’s 6.57 Crew tried to hijack the general election – and accidentally helped the Tories win
By Richard Edwards published
Action Replay Docker Hughes’s notorious firm were better known for causing chaos wherever they went in the 1980s, but made headlines of a different kind when their leader ran for office with a madcap manifesto
The craziest season in English football: when the champions got relegated and ‘Lucky Arsenal’ annoyed the nation
By Jon Spurling published
Action Replay Hapless title holders, unlikely contenders at the top and a glut of mid-ranking sides upsetting the established order – the 1937/38 season was mental from start to finish
Football's greatest-ever title finish? Arsenal's 1989 triumph over Liverpool, told by the players
By Louis Massarella published
Action Replay Before Aguero there was this: George Graham’s rebuilt Arsenal against Liverpool in the final 90 minutes of the entire season. But as a TV audience of millions watched on, no one would have predicted its dramatic conclusion
The 9 best Phoenix From The Flames sketches from Baddiel & Skinner's 'Fantasy Football League'
By Chris Flanagan last updated
Action Replay Peter Beardsley singing, George Best getting punchy, Uri Geller in a helicopter and more…
The football team destroyed by the Chernobyl disaster: FC Pripyat
By Paul Brown last updated
FourFourTwo FC Pripyat were preparing for a cup semi-final and move to a new stadium in April 1986 when Chernobyl changed everything. Their former captain recalls how a progressive town and its football team came to an abrupt, tragic end
Remembered: When Dundee United beat Barça in 1987… twice
By Richard Edwards published
Dundee United Almost 30 years on, Richard Edwards recalls the magical month when Jim McLean’s side saw off El Tel’s Spanish giants home and away en route to the UEFA Cup final. Celtic: take heart...
The worst five months in English football: Thatcher, fighting and fatalities in 1985
By Richard Edwards last updated
Action Replay If 1984 was a bad year for England, then 1985 was utterly disastrous – not least if you were a football fan. Richard Edwards remembers Maggie's meddling, an appalling May and the start of the supporter strikeback...
When Ajax ruled the world: how Louis van Gaal nurtured his glorious mid-'90s empire
By Alec Fenn last updated
Action Replay The Cruyff-inspired ‘70s team may have been their greatest in history – but in the early ’90s a new golden generation helped to make Amsterdam the capital city of Europe for a second time
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