"Jossys Giants" visit Bobby Charlton and Willie McFaul at St James' Park 1985. Aye Bobby Charlton, not Jackie Charlton who had left the club as manager in the huff over player sales and such before McFaul stepped in and faced the same old problem. After introducing the Jossy's lads to McFaul the ex Northern [.

"Going Up" "Northern Life" special 1984. 30 minute Tyne Tees Television special programme from 1984, where David Burton reviews Newcastle United's 1983-4 promotion season. Featuring Arthur Cox, Kevin Keegan, and some classic Keegan, Waddle and Beardsley goals from the days when the club had a front three that I'm sure quite a few Toon [.

As a player, former Spurs and Newcastle winger Chris Waddle was on the winning side at Anfield only once during his entire playing career. The winger - nicknamed 'Magic Chris' by Marseille fans during his stint in France - hopes that Harry Redknapp's Spurs team can do the business in tonight's hotly anticipated game at Anfield, but irrespective of the result, Waddle believes Liverpool are moving

Venue: Amex Stadium, Brighton Date: 28th January 2012 Kick Off: 5.15pm Referee: Lee Probert Quite simply, this was a game United should not have lost. Even with the cautious tactics employed by Pardew we were clearly a class above, dominated 75% of the game and had a penalty appeal for a blatant handball turned down.

Abel Xavier foi eleito, por 23 dos 63 leitores que participaram na última votação, como o jogador com o penteado mais bizarro da história do futebol. Formado no Sporting e Estrela da Amadora, Abel Xavier, hoje Faisal após a conversão ao Islamismo, conheceu um dos pontos mais altos da sua carreira ainda muito jovem quando se sagrou campeão do mundo de sub-20 (ainda com um penteado "normal), um título que lhe valeu a transferência para o Benfica, onde se manteve por três épocas.

50 year-old Chris Waddle was born in Felling, and he started his career at Tow Law Town before moving to Newcastle in 1980. Chris Waddle - played for England 61 times Chris played for four years at Newcastle and appeared 191 times with 52 goals before moving to Tottenham Hotspur in 1984. Waddle also played [.

by Adam Bate

Lille may be a long way from Lourdes but the message from Joe Cole is clear – his visit to France has given him a new lease of life.

Cole had cut a forlorn figure at Liverpool but the loan move to Ligue 1 has seen him reinvigorated. Roaming the field with freedom and dribbling past defenders for fun, it is easy to be reminded of the player once hailed as the saviour of English football.

England legend Paul Gascoigne has revealed that Kenny Dalglish tried to sign him for Liverpool during the 1988 season.
Gascoigne, who went on to sign for Spurs instead, remembered:
"Kenny was the first one to come in for me. He said ‘I want to sign you'...Ian Rush was playing at Juventus at the time.

I look at Theo Walcott and I see a frustrated figure.
To me, he is in danger of becoming as stale as the loaf of bread that's been in my bread bin since 2007. Though he isn't as mouldy.
At the moment Theo doesn't look like he is enjoying his football.
His body language is worse than my French and his face looks like a smacked arse.

Is this what Chris Waddle did? Nope, there was no sand, binge drinking and sex not on the evidence of this video at least but there was some out-of-context beach games on display at this week's match between Huddersfield and Bradford. The Terriers sidestepped a few health and safety regulations to have fans [.

At the end of the second leg the Quarter Final of 1991 Champion League (or as it used to be called, European Cup), Chris Waddle almost scored a historical "Maradonian" goal. Olympic Marseille was already leading 1-0 vs. AC Milan,
That chance was not so historical and wonderful just for its brilliant dribbling and running skills of it, that was the least part of it, it was a great moment by itself,
We are talking about 1991 AC Milan, when Milan dominated the world of football.

By Chris Wright

Part-inspired by Sandro's blue Roadkill Mullet-Hawk, welcome one-and-all to the Pies 'Horror Hair Hall Of Fame'. Let's dive straight in shall we?

(Warning: Those with a low resistance to wanton follicle abuse should probably turn around and leave right about.

By Alan Duffy

Self-induced humiliation is apparently a global phenomenon. After looking at the five most memorable English footballer pop disasters last week, we now turn our attention to the rest of the world, where, like at home, the footballing ego knows no bounds.

By Alan Duffy

With his disastrous spell at Liverpool now behind him, tricky schemer Joe Cole is looking to kickstart his career with French champions Lille.

Talking to BBC Sport, the 29-year-old is confident he will rediscover his best form across the Channel.

Chesterfield 0 Leyton Orient 0 - Football League One
Chesterfield is a market town and a borough of Derbyshire, England. It lies 24 miles north of Derby, on a confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Chesterfield began as a Roman fort, which was built around 70 AD.

The White Hart Lane Faithful has been blessed throughout the years with some of the best wingers to grace the British and world game.

Since I've been a fan, we've had the likes of Chris Waddle, David Ginola and Darren Anderton hogging the touchline, dropping a shoulder and producing a moment of brilliance or a cross which has brightened a dull winter evening.

Luis Suarez missed penalty v Sunderland was real Chris Waddle like in 1990 World Cup v Germany, however Suarez did make amends five minutes later.

THFC1882 is pleased to present another guest writer. This look at Ledley King is from Gareth Johnson.

Gareth Johnson is a rare breed ... a born and bred Geordie .. and a Spurs supporter! "It has to be a genetic disorder" says Gareth, who has supported the club for 24 years.

Joe Cole to PSG, Chris Waddle at Marseille and Mick McCarthy at Lyon: 10 British footballers in France

Bon chance, monsieur Cole!

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Victor Decolongon/Getty Images(Bleacher Report) England is the birthplace of the world's greatest game. Not only does it have the title of home of the beautiful game, but it is also home to many legendary players in the sport.
Men like Peter Shilton, who holds the record for the most caps in the English National Team at 125, and Manchester United immortal, Sir Bobby Charlton.

Poor, to be Franck He should have known better. He had his warning. Chris Waddle. Glenn Hoddle. Andy Cole (that one was ear-rapingly bad). Ian Wright. Paul Gascoigne. Everyone knows that footballers, as good as they are with their legs and feet, have a tendency to be dreadful at making music. It's something to do [.

This morning I was looking back through the archives to see if I could do an 'On this day', kind of feature. I think I picked a bad day.

My choices were: the day after Thierry Henry left (2007), us being linked very heavily with Alexander Hleb (2005), Jens Lehmann talking about how we should sign Miroslav Klose (2006), Barcelona talking about wanting to sign Thierry (2003), vaguely hoping Igors Stepanovs might cripple Ruud van Nistelrooy in the Euros (2004) and a quote from Chris Waddle talking on 5Live about the Swedish back four at the 2002 World Cup:

The Swedish back four is amongst the tallest in the world cup.

Whilst watching England's latest debacle unfold, I kept hearing blunt phrases and outbursts hurled at the TV such as ‘That Walcott is bloody useless!', ‘what's he doing now?!?', ‘Oh God not Walcott again' and ‘DO SOMETHING WITH THE BALL YOU MUPPET!!'. Then I realised it was my voice.

Whilst watching England's latest debacle unfold, I kept hearing blunt phrases and outbursts hurled at the TV such as ‘That Walcott is bloody useless!', ‘what's he doing now?!?', ‘Oh God not Walcott again' and ‘DO SOMETHING WITH THE BALL YOU MUPPET!!'. Then I realised it was my voice.

In the modern era, the notion of the professional footballer travelling abroad has become part and parcel of the game, and even Britons get involved. It doesn't always work out, of course for every Chris Waddle, who sparkled on the Mediterranean coast for Olympique de Marseille, there has been a Luther Blissett but more and more players that are unable to find themselves a contract at home are seeking their fortunes abroad, as closely monitored by our friends at Les Rosbifs.

Football and music often goes hand in hand. Unfortunately for modern spectators, this relationship is less obvious nowadays as footballers choose to channel their musicality more passively. The closest Premier League stars have come to Top of the Pops in ... Continue reading →

-Chris Ballard
When I logged onto my Twitter account this morning I saw talk about an article written by Grant Wahl regarding the FIFA Presidency. Having an interest in the matter, I zipped over to Sports Illustrated's website to have a look. And I was outraged. Outraged, I tell you. Essentially, Wahl has thrown his hat into the ring for the presidential elections in June.

Xavi made his way through the ranks at Barcelona and has spent 13 years in their first team. In this time, he has won 5 league titles and 2 European Cups, amongst other trophies.

However, when revealing his admiration for several Manchester United players amongst those from other Premiership teams, he claimed that if had ever left Barcelona, United would have been the only club he would have joined.

During sunny times, the British media is a sultry, kohl-eyed seductress who will pose and blink her way into your heart as you blink away your disbelief. Hyperboles will be at a shortage as pundits you didn't even know existed shower you with exotic flowers and honey. You'll be the toast of the town as the papers go to town on you.

"It's a disgrace, it's a f***ing disgrace, those bloody foreign Arsenal players are a disgrace to the game of football".

Oh dear, twitter went a little bit crazy yesterday. Twitter always goes crazy whenever an Arsenal game is televised, particularly on ESPN, which seems to be an anti-Arsenal propaganda machine (not that I'm paranoid or anything).

"It's a disgrace, it's a f***ing disgrace, those bloody foreign Arsenal players are a disgrace to the game of football".

Oh dear, twitter went a little bit crazy yesterday. Twitter always goes crazy whenever an Arsenal game is televised, particularly on ESPN, which seems to be an anti-Arsenal propaganda machine (not that I'm paranoid or anything).

Lazy, sloppy, Messi penalty It is typical of Lionel Messi that even when he makes a balls up of something, he cannot help but do it in spectacular fashion. Take his penalty against Real Betis last night, for instance, which made Chris Waddle's Italia 90 spot-kick look relatively accurate. The Argentine skied the ball over [.

I've been putting together an article on some retro TV adverts starring footballers for Betfair Football and came across these two classics starring our own Pat Jennings.

The following one featuring Pat dressed up as a goalkeeping oil filter for Unipart was pretty familiar to me, but the advert below in which he stars alongside Tony Tiger in an advert for Frosties was one that I hadn't seen.

Hmmm, bank holiday here and in the UK, I believe. Which is kind of annoying because I wanted to ring up my bank today and complain about something but I suppose it'll have to wait.

It means things are fairly quiet with not much in the way of fall-out from the Birmingham game and little written about City just yet.

I'm sure I'm not alone in hoping that the first game of 2011 is a sign of things to come for this year. A good win, three goals, a clean sheet and the best response against a team who went over the edge a little bit physically.

Apart from one Fabianski save from a first half Seb Larsson free kick I don't remember the Arsenal goalkeeper having to do much at all beyond come for a few crosses and corners which he did solidly.