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David Beckham of Man Utd in 1999.

Football has changed. In The Age of Innocence: Football in the 1970s, we hark back to the era when footballers wore glasses and could smoke without being castigated, the game wasn’t a bloated global brand, fans supported their local clubs, footballers’ wives were nurses called ‘Anne’, England footballers off to the World Cup scored a … Continue reading "Football In The 1970s: When Footballers Wanted A Pint, A Smoke And To Bring Back Hanging"

ASOIAF/GoT houses as British football teams

Stores across the country have been stocking up on the red and white flag as the World Cup tournament approaches, but locals who see Cornwall as a Celtic nation are pushing for a boycott.

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mason mount. © CENTRALCZN, 2021

In 1991, Richard Davis documented football culture in the 90s around the stadiums of North West England for a book called "Football with Attitude." The

From the 1960s onwards, the UK had a reputation worldwide for football hooliganism was often dubbed the English Disease. Since the 1980s and well into the 1990s the UK government has led a widescale crackdown on football related violence. While football hooliganism has been a growing concern in some other European countries in recent years, British football fans now tend to have a better reputation abroad. Although reports of British football hooliganism still surface, the instances now tend…