The Nat Lofthouse Story: A Working Class Hero
Nat Lofthouse remains one of those legendary giants of the past upon whom we have constructed the present and the future.
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Franz Beckenbauer: How the Kaiser changed football
There’s no doubt that Franz Beckenbauer is one of the key figures in post-war football. He was the central character in the rise of Bayern Munich.
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Lionel Messi is simply the World’s Greatest Player
From a junior player whose very future in the game was threatened because of his stature, Lionel Messi has grown into the biggest figure in the game.
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Michel Platini – A Man Of Great Vision
Michel Platini was a footballer of great vision and intelligence who could pass the ball with the accuracy of a mathematician and the finesse of an artist.
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Marco Van Basten was the Unsung Hero Of Holland
Marco Van Basten was the most exciting player in the world in the late 1980s, a footballer who helped transform the world game. By Dave Bowler.
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Alfredo Di Stefano: The Magician of Madrid
Alfredo Di Stefano, born of Italian parents in Buenos Aires, was clearly a prodigy from the very outset. Joining River Plate as a 17 year old. By Dave Bowler.
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Laurie Cunningham: The James Dean of English Football
Laurie Cunningham is an endlessly, beautifully, gracefully, shatteringly appealing story, one that has so many facets it is always worth the re-telling,
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Rickie Lambert on his rocky road to the World Cup
Rickie Lambert had to take a pretty lengthy route to get to the pinnacle of Premier League football, England goals and the World Cup.
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Cunningham Regis and Batson – The Holy Trinity
The 1978/79 season was saw the emergence of black footballers, embodied in Albion’s own Holy Trinity of Cunningham Regis and Batson.
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Scotland’s Dave Mackay was an all-time great
The passing of Scottish legend Dave Mackay leaves football shorn of another of its true greats, a footballer of monumental gifts.
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