By Chris Wright
Friday Flashback XXXVI: Fight to the Finish...
Once again, many many many thanks to Old School Panini (@OldSchoolPanini) for letting us plunder their archives yet again. Nous vous aimons beaucoup!
More Friday Flashback goodness on Pies.
By Chris Wright
With the big'n just around the corner, we thought we'd use this Friday's Panini Flashback to offer a proverbial doff of the cap to 20 players who have left indelible marks on the Champions League Final over the years.
Obviously we couldn't make room for every Champions League Final hero, so a few obvious ones have missed out namely Steven Gerrard, though his "same haircut since 1985″ stickers are unilaterally boring anyway.
By Chris Wright
Friday Flashback XXXIII: Die Harder...
Zaire's official World Cup sticker from 1974 there. Almost certainly not racist in any way, shape or form.
Many thanks to Old School Panini (@OldSchoolPanini) for letting us rummage around their attic again!
By Chris Wright
Friday Flashback XXXI: The Quest For Peace...
Many thanks to Old School Panini (@OldSchoolPanini) for letting us rummage around their attic again!
More Friday Flashback goodness on Pies...
Friday Flashback Volume #1
Friday Flashback Volume #2
Friday Flashback Volume #3
Friday Flashback Volume #4
Friday Flashback Volume #5
Friday Flashback Volome #6
Friday Flashback Volume #7
Friday Flashback Volume #8
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Friday Flashback Volume #11
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Friday Flashback Volume #14
Friday Flashback Volume #15
Friday Flashback Volume #16
Friday Flashback Volume #17
Friday Flashback Volume #18
Friday Flashback Volume #19
Friday Flashback Volume #20 Random 90s Football Sticker Quiz
Friday Flashback Volume #21
Friday Flashback Volume #22
Friday Flashback Volume #23
Friday Flashback Volume #24 Random 90s Sticker Quiz, Edition II
Friday Flashback Volume #25
Friday Flashback Volume #26
Friday Flashback Volume #27
Friday Flashback Volume #28 Random 90s Sticker Quiz, Edition III
Friday Flashback Volume #29
Friday Flashback Volume #30
By Chris Wright
The Friday Flashback XXX: The Naked Mile...
Many thanks to Old School Panini (@OldSchoolPanini) for letting us rummage around their attic again!
More Friday Flashback goodness on Pies...
Friday Flashback Volume #1
Friday Flashback Volume #2
Friday Flashback Volume #3
Friday Flashback Volume #4
Friday Flashback Volume #5
Friday Flashback Volome #6
Friday Flashback Volume #7
Friday Flashback Volume #8
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Friday Flashback Volume #10
Friday Flashback Volume #11
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Friday Flashback Volume #14
Friday Flashback Volume #15
Friday Flashback Volume #16
Friday Flashback Volume #17
Friday Flashback Volume #18
Friday Flashback Volume #19
Friday Flashback Volume #20 Random 90s Football Sticker Quiz
Friday Flashback Volume #21
Friday Flashback Volume #22
Friday Flashback Volume #23
Friday Flashback Volume #24 Random 90s Sticker Quiz, Edition II
Friday Flashback Volume #25
Friday Flashback Volume #26
Friday Flashback Volume #27
Friday Flashback Volume #28 Random 90s Sticker Quiz, Edition III
Friday Flashback Volume #29
By Chris Wright
The Friday Flashback XXIX: Fletch Lives...
Always save the Best for last...
More Friday Flashback goodness on Pies...
Friday Flashback Volume #1
Friday Flashback Volume #2
Friday Flashback Volume #3
Friday Flashback Volume #4
Friday Flashback Volume #5
Friday Flashback Volome #6
Friday Flashback Volume #7
Friday Flashback Volume #8
Friday Flashback Volume #9
Friday Flashback Volume #10
Friday Flashback Volume #11
Friday Flashback Volume #12
Friday Flashback Volume #13
Friday Flashback Volume #14
Friday Flashback Volume #15
Friday Flashback Volume #16
Friday Flashback Volume #17
Friday Flashback Volume #18
Friday Flashback Volume #19
Friday Flashback Volume #20 Random 90s Football Sticker Quiz
Friday Flashback Volume #21
Friday Flashback Volume #22
Friday Flashback Volume #23
Friday Flashback Volume #24 Random 90s Sticker Quiz, Edition II
Friday Flashback Volume #25
Friday Flashback Volume #26
Friday Flashback Volume #27
Friday Flashback Volume #28 Random 90s Sticker Quiz, Edition III
By Chris Wright
In what is more than likely going to be our 'Football Crests from Around the World, etc ' bit, we're having a butcher's at 20 now-obsolete English football crestthat have been, by and large, replaced by inferior designs over the years...
1. Newcastle United
Pure 70′s bubble letter magic from Newcastle.
By Chris Wright
Time for a bit of Good Friday fun with the third installment of Pies' extra special random Premier League sticker quiz. You know the drill: All you've got to do is try to identify this battalion of 90s heroes, tot up your tally and tell us how well you went on in the comments below the dotted line if you see fit.
By Chris Wright
Back after a week off, it's Friday Flashback XXVII:The Squeakquel...
Do. Not. Mess...
Time for our weekly pointer toward the football sticker goldmine that isOld School Panini (follow them on Twitter @OldSchoolPanini).
By Chris Wright
As promised, hot on the heels of our Top XI Favourite Premier League Home Kits, comes its companion piece: Pies' rundown of our ten yes, we counted properly this time favourite away kits to have graced the English top flight since 1992/93.
LET'S DO THIS.
By Chris Wright
After taking a gentle stroll through the best badges South American, Asianand Africanfootball have to offer, we thought we'd do something a little different this week and mosey back through time to the now-defunct NASL's heyday to have a cheeky peek at their finest logos, crests andinsignia.
By Chris Wright
Friday Flashback XXV: When Harry Met Lloyd...
Jeff Astle: The man responsible for the definitive version of Rod Stewart's "Sailing"...
Merci beacoups once again to our friends over at Old School Panini for sharing their wonderful wares!
By Chris Wright
For absolutely no reason other than we fancied compiling a good old fashioned list today, here's Pies' pick of the XI finest home footballing liveries to be sported in the Premier League since its inception in 1992 and any clever gits out there who think this was originally supposed to be a 'Top 10′ and we failed to count properly are WAY WRONG, capiche?
By Chris Wright
Rejoice! It's the second edition of Pies' extra special random Premier League sticker quiz. All you've got to do is identify this cavalcade of 1990s heroes, tot up your tally and tell us how well you went on in the comments below the dotted line if you see fit.
By Chris Wright
Friday Flashback XXIII: When Nature Calls...
Dear God we hope that's chocolate mousse!
Merci beacoups once again to our friends over at Old School Panini for sharing their wonderful wares! We thoroughly suggest you follow them on Twitter @OldSchoolPanini if you enjoy this sort of thing.
By Chris Wright
Thanks to the "jobs for the boys" policy that seems to be in operation at every single sport broadcasting department in the country, an inordinate number of former professional footballers are now employed to chat about football before, during and after games with a shocking number of them appearing to have absolutely no understanding of the game that once provided their principle stream of income.
By Chris Wright
Here's our semi-drunken conclusions from last night's Champions League Final...
1.Dortmund went with "wing and a prayer" approach to defending. Indeed, their back four was so slap-dash that Klopp's men were lucky not to be out of the game by the hour mark.
By Chris Wright
We know these composite XI things are largely pointless, but, hey, so's football. With the Champions League Final in mind, we've cobbled together the best of Bayern and the best of Dortmund together into what we think is the best composite team available between the two squads.
By Chris Wright
1. First up, this never was and never will be a red card offence...
Terrible terrible call. Taken out of context and seen in isolation like this ^ it looks nasty, but it was blatantly obvious that Nani was rising to pull the ball out of the sky and Arbeloa's flank just so happened to get caught in his path.
By Alan Duffy
Here we are again, another week, another Premier League XI. This time it's courtesy of the all-conquering Spain, who have dominated international football for the past five years or so.
There are plenty of trademark diminutive schemers to choose from here, but the defensive options are rather less plentiful.
By Chris Wright
You'd be forgiven for not knowing seeing as though they seem to be doing their utmost to bury it, but it's actually the FA Cup Final tomorrow evening.
To that end, this week's Friday Flashback is dedicated to a gaggle of those who have done their bit when it comes to the Football Association Challenge Cup over the years and none of the blighters have ever looked better.
By Chris Wright
Friday Flashback XXVI: Viva Rock Vegas...
SmugglingGuineapigs again...
Time for our weekly pointer toward the football sticker goldmine that isOld School Panini (follow them on Twitter @OldSchoolPanini). Give them a visit and be prepared to lose hours.
By Chris Wright
"Come give us a hug you big soft Nelly!"
If you'll excuse the flagrant self-aggrandising, without wanting to dissolve into Fergie overload (too late), here's the best of the mileage we've had out of Sir over the past few years, all conglomerated into one, easily-digestiblelink page.
By Chris Wright
"Sorry lad, you're not going through to boot camp"
We're not entirely sure how it's going to work, but we assume Sir Alex's successor at Manchester United is going to be chosen via some kind of Pop Idol talent show with the man himself heading up the judging panel while the hopefuls list their dead family members then warble through "I Know Him So Well" in the hopes of catching the big man's eye.
By Chris Wright
We've seen the septet whom the PFA deem potentially worthy to take their 'Player of the Year' trinket and, bar a couple of debatable anomalies, it's difficult to argue with their selection- it's just a bit boring and predictable is all.
However, we feel there is a swathe of players who deserve to have their 2012/13 Premier League contributions acknowledged and therefore we've put together an alternative shortlist of nominees for you to peruse, process and react violently to.
By Alan Duffy
In this week's edition of the Pies' Premier League XI, we're off to home of sun, sand, transsexual prostitutes and samba football.
There actually aren't all that many Brazilians have made the move to the top tier in English football during the Premier League years, with just 51 in total playing in the division and only a few really flourishing over here.
By Chris Wright
Wool is a bit chintzy at the best of times so, in honour of Mr Di Canio's choice of outfit for his maiden whirl on the Sunderland touchline this weekend, Pies thought we'd compile an odyssey of football's worst/naffest knitwear ordeals.
Staring with the man himself.
By Chris Wright
We didn't stumble across many (the Newcastle University/Sports Direct prank being an exception) and it didn't seem to be a bumper year, but we've still managed to cobble together our five favourite footballing April Fools japes from yesterday.
By Chris Wright
Exactly what it says on the tin: a 25-strong compendium of some of the very worst Wikipedia profile photos assigned to members of the footballing community available on the internet today.
Hold tight, find something to bite down on and awaaaaaay we go.
By Chris Wright
Liverpool honcho Brendan Rodgers likes to talk in parables. He's very much the Jesus of middle-management-style football coaching. Here are his greatest hits...
1. "It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes."
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By Chris Wright
As far as we're concerned Valentine's Day is nowt but a stark reminder that no-one loves us on the 364 other days of the year either, but hey ho love is theoretically in the air, the goose is getting fat, yadda yadda yadda.
We thought we'd have a look at some of the greatest, most enduring bromances that football has incubated over the years because love, in all its many forms, is a beautiful thing.
By Chris Wright
In the absence of anything else happening, here's a cheeky l'il look at some of the most ridiculous nicknames ever bestowed to the footballing fraternity...
1. Cristian "ElCebolla/The Onion" Rodriguez:So called because his fancy feet made defenders cry back in his Penarol days.
By Greg Evans
The Confederations Cup is a strange little tournament. Comprising the winners of the six major FIFA tournaments (UEFA, CONMEBOL, CONCACFA, CAF, AFC, OFC) the World Cup winners and even the UEFA runners up, its essentially the Cup Winners Cup for International teams a "miniature World Cup" if you will.
By Chris Wright
Don't ask us how but Pies have managed to get our grubby paws on a comprehensive list of every single free transfer going spare from clubs in Europe's "Big Five" leagues (okay, it's readily available over on Transfermarkt) and we, being the conscientious souls we are, have whittled down and plucked the ten finest prospects out of the bunch for your perusal.
By Chris Wright
It's fair to say that Bayern Munich have waltzed their way to a 23rd Bundesliga title this season, finishing up a good 25 points clear of second-placed Dortmund and losing but one solitary game on the way.
The rollicking Rotens have sent domestic record after domestic record tumbling in 2012/13 (many of which were set by Dortmund last year) and the list really is rather impressive though don't just take our word for it, have a gander yourselves.
By Chris Wright
Having scoured the globe for the best club badges on offer in Asia, South America, Australia and The States, we reckon it's about time to come back home and have a root around. As such, here's 22 of our favourite football logos from all around the other home nations and Eire.
By Chris Wright
Don't ask us how but it's Monday again, so it's time to bring some more of our favourite football club badges from around the world.
This week we're poring over 25 of the best of the badges from Australian football; the A-League, the National Soccer League that proceeded it and a few crests roped in from the country's other various regional leagues too.
By Chris Wright
We've already covered South American and African football's finest insignia over the past couple of weeks, so it's bloody well high time that we turn our sights on Asian football's mostest fantabulous-est club badges.
Here goes.
By Chris Wright
We've already had a butcher's at the very finest club logos that South American football (and Central/Northern America for all those geography pedants out there!) has to offer, and now we're shifting continents to bring you our 25 favourite badges from the realms of Africa's various domestic football leagues.
