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entails is sometimes too much for the md boys. So for a quick fix without too much effort, here's our Top 10 Lite page...
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| 10 TRADITIONAL ENGLISH CENTRE FORWARDS |
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Just when you thought the days of the traditional centre forward were gone, with the retirement of the
likes of Alan Shearer and Duncan Ferguson (not English, we know, get over it), along comes Geordie
giant Andy Carroll, a real throwback to the good old days, when players like a pint, a bag of
chips and a packet of Woodbines, and that was just before the game.
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Nat Lofthouse - scored more than 3,000 goals for Bolton in his 52 year spell at the club. His methods included waiting until the goalie had caught the ball and then he'd carry him over the line and into the net.
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Tommy Lawton - was so good in the air he was made Air Vice Marshal in the Second World War by Winston Churchill despite his lack of flying experience.
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Steve Bull - So devoted to Wolves he famously said the only club he'd leave them for would be Wolfsburg. When they were managed by Wolfgang Wolff.
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Peter Withe - Was nicknamed Douglas Bader by Villa fans during his time at the club. Not because he had two wooden legs and was good in the air. But because he was played by an elderly Sir Kenneth More in an ill conceived biopic of Withe - "Withe? Nails Am I".
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John Fashunu - Battering ram of a centre forward who went on to host Gladiators and Fash in the Attic, where he hides in a celebrities attic for months on end before diving out on them wearing the full 1989 Wimbledon kit.
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Mick Harford - Part of the infamous Birmingham team of the early 1980s that was so hard Ronald Reagan threatened to unleash them on the Soviet Union. President Gorbachev was so scared he ended the Cold War.
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Lee Chapman - Set a new world record for the number of Scotch eggs eaten in a minute. Great feat for a big man.
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Mark Hateley - Mark was so hard that when he played for Glasgow Rangers he used to go into Celtic pubs and order shandy. With an umbrella in it!
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Jackie Milburn - Long before Alan Shearer became the Geordie hero they had Wor Jackie. Paid in coal throughout his career, Wor Jackie turned to acting to turn a coin and was in line to play the businessman punched by Michael Caine in Get Carter but lost out to Corrie's Alf Roberts.
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Luther Blisset - Sensationally transferred to AC Milan back in 1983, he was so hard that he missed the
the Rossoneri's summer tour of America so that the club's mega-rich owners could build a time machine, transport
him back to the middle ages and use him as a battering ram for the Ottoman empire to lay siege on Constantinople.
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| 10 BEST WORLD CUP MATCHES IN THE DYNAMO'S LIVING MEMORY |
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Italy 3 Brazil 2 1982, Barcelona, Quarter Final
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Brazil 1 France 1 1986, Guadalajara Quarter Final France win on penalties
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W Germany 3 France 3 1982, Seville Semi Final West Germany win on penalties
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Argentina 2 England 2 1998, St Etienne 2nd Round Argentina win on penalties
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Germany 0 Italy 2 2006, Dortmund Semi Final
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Belgium 4 USSR 3 1986, Leon 2nd Round
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W Germany 1 England 1 1990, Turin Semi Final West Germany win on penalties
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Argentina 2 Romania 3 1994, Pasadena 2nd Round
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Argentina 1 Holland 2 1998, Marseille Quarter Final
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Holland 2 Scotland 3 1978, Mendoza, Group Stage
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Before the complaints start - these are just games we can remember. So anything before 1978 is not going to be on this list.
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| 10 THINGS THAT ARE PI$$ING ME OFF AT THE START OF THE SEASON |
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The use on message boards of "United Fan in peace" or whatever. It really gets my goat. Are online football fans so
idiotic and aggressive that a declaration of peace is necessary before making your point on another clubs website?
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The comparisons to football in discussions about rugby's bloody boring "Bloodgate" fiasco.
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The use of the word "gate" to supplant any controversy or cheating. It also happens in the wider world and it's
hugely irritating. What if there was a grand conspiracy at Bristol City? Ashton Gate Gate anyone?
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The Eduardo saga. Yawntastic.
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Neil Warnock. I know he's an easy target and I used to think of him as 'colourful'. Now I just think of him as a 'prick'.
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1.People thinking how hilarious the West Ham v Millwall 'barney' was. It wasn't, it was pathetic.
An embarrassing exhibition of grotesque Estuary blubber. Forget arresting them, they should be rolled back into the sea
for the Norwegians to fire harpoons at.
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The clich' about La Liga becoming the strongest league in the world. Maybe it is but when only two clubs matter and out of
all the other clubs the marquee signing is Jermaine Pennant, something is severely wrong. At least we've got 4 over mighty,
over powerful corporate fat cats with a fifth flashing its money around and getting ideas beyond its station (Stoke City).
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1.The Michael Owen debate still going on around his absence from the England squad. When he plays regularly and scores some goals, he'll get back in.
Until he does Don Fabio won't pick him. End of.
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The dull inevitability of the Champions League group stage. Be honest, there are tribes in Papua New Guinea, as yet
untouched by civilisation whose elders could predict 14 of the 16 second round qualifiers. As for the new Europa League format...
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Pundits who refer to the Champions League group stages. There's only one group stage. Why do they do that? In the same way,
why do people refer to 'Asdas' or 'Tescos'? Its not. Its 'Asda' or 'Tesco'. Or group stage.
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Grrrr. GF.
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| TOP 10 REASONS WHY I STILL CANT STAND THE NEW WEMBLEY |
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Its location. Why does everything have to be in London?
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The poxy middle tier full of corporate freeloaders.
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The cost. For o800m the Germans could have built a stadium on the moon. With better transport links.
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The rubbish atmosphere at England games. Full of tourists. And noisy away fans. Even Kazakhstan out sang us in the moments that our lot weren't booing Ashley Cole or cheering Beckham as he warmed up.
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FA Cup Semi finals there. Just wait for Middlesbrough v Blackburn in front of 35,000.
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No English National Academy.
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The food and drink prices. o10 for a cup of tea. Made out of puke.
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Lack of decent transport links. Yes I know, they've updated Wembley Park tube. Whoopee do. Compare that to a stadium built at the NEC. The M6, M5 and M42. Birmingham International Airport. The West Coast Main Line. And all within a Morgen Gamst Pederson dive of the potential stadium.
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No decent parking.
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No decent pubs.
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No decent pub car parks.
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That's 11! That's how much I still can't stand the new Wembley. Grrrr.
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