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For 24 years, this goal was only seen by those who were at Anfield for the League (then Milk) Cup match against Manchester United. Everyone else could only read about it because the TV crews were on strike.

The story goes that Ron Atkinson, then manager of Manchester United, was the only person who had access to the footage and magnanimously gave the tape to Jan Molby after the game. After all these years, that mythical goal has now found its place in the tubes permanently.

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  • 80s, anfield, goal, jan molby, kop, liverpool

 

Daniel Agger and Pepe Reina smother the scorer of the second goal, David Ngog

A run of four defeats got every Championship Manager playing armchair critic talking about how lousy Rafael Benítez was and how Liverpool were absolutely dependent on their two star players. A solid win against the reigning champions will surely shut some people up, until the next crisis at least.

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  • anfield, english football, liverpool, premier league

 
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  • england, football club, manchester city, money, website

 

464 first-team appearances, 35 goals and a whole clutch of medals, from the FA Cup to the Champions League. I just wished Liverpool’s finest Finn, Sami Hyypiä, could have left Liverpool with the league title as well, but it was not meant to be.

Goodbye and good luck!

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  • english league, finland, liverpool, scouse

 

What a cheeky bastard, too!

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  • bayern munich, Bundesliga, classic, germany, goal, grafite, wolfsberg

 

And what a goal from Fabio Aurelio, as Liverpool thrash Manchester United at Old Trafford

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  • english football, fernando torres, liverpool, premier league, steven gerrard

 

The worst thing has been the injuries to Torres… He has been our main striker and scored a lot of goals for us last season. And this season could have been totally different with him.

›› Rafael Benitez, the same man who sold a top striker after just six months

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  • fernando torres, liverpool, premier league, rafael benitez, robbie keane

 

A Middlesbrough Football Club programme guide from 1979
Match Day Football Programmes is a collection of match day programmes from the golden era of British football (before all the commercialism, professionalism and all that) published by Fuel Design. It features English league (and a few non-league) clubs from 1945 to 1991. At £18 a piece, this pocket sized book is an excellent window into the simpler (albeit amateur) days of the beautiful game.

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  • british, classic, english, english football, league matches, programme, retro

 

I’m happy the guillotine does no longer exist, otherwise some of you would have been delighted to send me there… I didn’t kill anybody. Maybe if I had, I would have benefited from mitigating circumstances.

›› French coach Raymond Domenech to the press

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  • austria, europe, france, media, qualifiers, reporters, serbia, world cup

 

If a player didn’t want to play for me, I know what I’d do — I’d drive him myself to wherever he wants to go.

›› Sunderland manager Roy Keane on Berbatov

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  • dimitar berbatov, english league, manager, striker, tottenham

 

The beautiful game played on a beautiful table
The Opus Football table is hand-crafted from wood and stainless-steel and comes with individually-modelled players, ergonomically designed handles and many other exquisite details. This table is not just for foosball nerds—this is for bloody wealthy foosball nerds, as Opus costs about US$75,000 a set.

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  • expensive, foosball, players, sport, table

 

Some beautifully designed T-shirts for the participating countries of Euro 2008

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  • austria, europe, germany, limited edition, nike, typography

 
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  • fabregas, Football, gallas, ibrahimovich, materazzi, ronaldinho, ronaldo, rooney, sneijder, van nistelrooy, wenger

 

Defeat at Parkhead the other night for Celtic and they would have needed Robert Mugabe to count the points if they wanted to retain their title.

›› Football pundit Chick Young on the Old Firm clash last week

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  • celtic, old firm, pundit, rangers, recount, Scotland, zimbabwe

 

The beauty of football is you have some values, you have the teams, you have the fans, you represent something important and you are not a travelling circus.

›› Michel Platini on the crazy English League ‘export’ idea

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  • barclays, circus, england, harlem globetrotters, league matches, money, overseas, premier league, UEFA

 

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