By Ollie Irish
The early 1990s was a halcyon era for shit football kits, especially in Britain. This Bradford
City 'diamonds' shirt, worn from 1991-93, is a textbook case in point:
You might recognise a couple of familiar faces in there – but can you name them all?
By Ollie Irish
'Chesney' is a big keeper.
Backley was a spear chucker.
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By Ollie Irish
Pienaar is a tricky winger with a penis.
Yankey is a tricky winger without a penis.
Spotter's badge: Montesquieu.
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By Ollie Irish
Big news, folks. Today we launch the first issue of our new quarterly football magazine.
Wooooooop!
The first issue of Who Ate All The Pies (The Tasty Football Magazine) is on sale today. TODAY!
Like NOW! You can consume Issue No.1 it in two ways:
1) As a printed, 48-page magazine (order it here) we hope that you'll buy it not only as
a gesture of support for Pies (it costs around a fiver), but also
just because it's worth it.
By Ollie Irish
Okay, they don't look anything alike, apart from both being pale blue and bloody enormous –
which is good enough for me, frankly.
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By Ollie Irish
A very bad Influence... Airport departure lounge carpet, anyone?
The keeper's kit was just as bad. Take it away, Sir Les Sealey:
Horrific.
Bonus points for anyone who can identify the outfield players pictured above.
By James Welham
I remember approaching the 1996-97 season with a degree of optimism. Despite a poor finish to
the previous Division One campaign, Southend United had been in the running for promotion right up
to Easter and, with former Liverpool and Ireland legend Ronnie Whelan in charge, there was a
feeling that we could genuinely make a tilt at the Premiership.
Anyone know what the record attendance for a two legged game is? Official attendances here change
like the weather in Manchester but the combined attendances for both legs of the AFF Cup Final were
pretty impressive.
In KL I saw 100,000 mentioned which won't be far off the mark given that just two blocks of seats
remained empty for the whole game.
