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Top 10 European Cup Finals (NEW!)
Our look back at the top 10 European Cup finals reaches
number 6
in our list, and the competition's first final between Real Madrid and Stade de Reims.
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Classic Football Shirts
For anyone who hasn't seen this fantastic site,
click here
to have a look at some great old favourites. Expect an md top ten to follow.
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Euro-Championship Heroes (NEW!)
Continuing our build up to Austria/Switzerland 2008 it's time for another hero of a previous tournament,
this time the man who inspired an unexpected run to the 1980 final, Belgium's
Jan Ceulemans.
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Top 10 Fan Anthems (NEW!)
md's list of the best fan anthems ever continues, with, allegedly,
football's oldest song coming in at number 9, the Canaries rendition of
On the Ball City.
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Top 10 Scottish Euro Club Nights (New)
Number 8
in our list of great Scottish European club nights is from 1962, and an incredible night when Dunfermline attempted to
overturn a four goal deficit against Valencia.
Click here
for the details.
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Top 10 European Cup Finals (NEW!)
Our look back at the top 10 European Cup finals continues with
number 7
in our list, as Celtic became the first British team to reach the final, in the 1967 classic clash of football
styles as they came up against Inter.
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Euro-Championship Heroes (NEW!)
Continuing our build up to Austria/Switzerland 2008 we're going to look back at the heroes of previous tournaments,
starting with the man who dominated a tournament like no other,
Michel Platini,
in 1984.
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Euro-Championship Curiosities (NEW!)
Tales from Europe's premier tournament, with some snippets from the 1984 and 2008 tournaments to kick the section off.
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Top 10 Scottish Euro Club Nights (New)
Whilst Rangers travel to Lisbon today hoping for a memorable European night, we continue
our Top 10 of great Scottish club performances by casting our eyes back to 1995 and Raith Rover's famous trip to one
of the giants of European football, Bayern Munich.
Click here
for the details.
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Top 10 Italian Hardmen (NEW!)
We've done the
10 dirtiest players from Spain,
now it's the turn of our other Latin friends
over in Italy. We begin our list at
number 10
, and a player best known for his role in the
infamous Battle of Santiago.
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Top 10 European Cup Finals (NEW!)
Our look back at the top 10 European Cup finals continues with
number 8
in our list, as cup holders Juventus travelled over the Alps in 1997 to take on
an emerging Borussia Dortmund in Munich's Olympic Stadium.
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Italian League Section (New)
We've created a new section for the Italian league to go alongside the existing
sections for Spain, England, Germany and Holland.
Click here
to see it.
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Top 10 Scottish Euro Club Nights (New)
Scotland's clubs have had many glory nights in European football history. To mark Rangers reaching the quarter final
of the UEFA Cup we've put together a Top 10 of the best of them.
Click here
to start with number 10 in our list.
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The Best Player Names (Updated)
To kick of this week we've got a couple of classic names from Reading's team of 1970's...
Robin Friday and
Wayne Wanklyn,
as well as a
big QPR favourite and
the rudest Portuguese name ever.
Thanks to Mike Garwell and Alan Bowes for their contributions.
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Italy's 20 Largest Stadia (NEW!)
To go alongside the other major countries that we've done,
click here
for a list of the 20 largest football stadiums in Italy.
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European Championships (NEW!)
With the big kick off in Austria and Switzerland only two months away, we've started
a European Championships section to help celebrate. Over the next couple of months we'll be
looking back at the top players, matches and goals from previous tournaments and having a
ponder on what we can expect from this year's competition.
Click here
to go to the section.
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Top 10 Fan Anthems (NEW!)
The start of a new Top 10, sees md list the best fan anthems ever, starting with
a Black Country classic at number 10,
the Liquidator.
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Top 10 European Cup Finals (NEW!)
Our look back at the top 10 European Cup finals continues with
number 9
in our list, Man Utd's late show against Bayern Munich in 1999.
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Rob Rensenbrink Profile (NEW!)
Often overlooked by the media in favour of his esteemed team-mates Cruyff and Neeskens,
Robbie Rensenbrink was nevertheless a key member of the legendary Dutch team of the 1970's.
Click here
for our profile of this under-rated attacker.
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England Boss Opening Games (Updated)
We've done the opening games of the managers from the 1960's to the 1990's, now it's time to look at the debuts of
Sven, Macca and Don Fabio.
Click here
to remind yourself of how they got on before it all started to go so horribly wrong.
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Top 10 European Cup Finals (New)
Ok, so it's had it's fair share of duff one's, but having been graced by some of the finest footballing
talent on the planet, the European Cup Final has also conjured up some classic matches.
We start with
number 10
in our list.
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Top Fan Chants (Updated)
Updated entries for
Newcastle Utd ,
Crystal Palace and
Swindon Town
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Celebrity Footy Fans (Updated)
What links Eddie Izzard, Harry Enfield, Jo Brand, Kevin Day, Rob Newman, Sean Hughes, Ronnie Corbett,
Roger de Courcey and Nookie Bear ? Well, apart from obviously being amongst the most creative comic talent this
country has ever produced, they're all Palace fans.
For the rest of the list,
click here.
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Steve Sherwood's Soccer Slang (Updated)
Steve Sherwood has gone hat-trick slang-tastic this month, with definitions for a whole variety of 3 goal salvo's, including
perfect,
classic,
golden,
flawless and
German varieties all making his
latest selection.
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World Cup Curiosities (Updated)
More tales from the World's premier tournament, with oddities from the
1950,
1974,
and
1978
tournaments added.
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Footballers Nicknames (Updated)
Jinky, Belfast Boy, the Fifth Beatle, the Gypsy and the Small Prince are the latest to be added to the list.
Click here
to see who they belong to.
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The Best Player Names (Updated)
Tunji Banjo and
Darren Deadman
are our latest entries to the list of the best and strangest names in the world of football.
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Onze Mondial Award (Updated)
Kaka is the latest winner of the Onze d'Or award.
To see the full list of previous winners,
click here.
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Foreign Player of Year Award (Italy)
An update of the list of award winners, with Kaka the latest recipient of the trophy.
To see the full list of previous winners,
click here.
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The Best Transfers Ever (Updated)
It was a world record transfer fee at the time, but the 5 million quid that Napoli shoved Barcelona's
way back in 1984 was worth every penny. For details on this and the other's in our list
click here.
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The Best Club Names (Updated)
Only one winner this month, and what a belter it is too - a crack Norwegian outfit with a name that will appeal to
all those who still like a bit of classic British toilet humour.
Click here for the details.
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