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Tony Adams, Steve Bould and David O’Leary (l-r) celebrate winning the 1988/89 league championship. Arsenal qualified for the European Cup the following season This is the fifth and final season of this particular ‘Alternative Football History’ in which I write about what would have happened if only Liverpool were banned from European football in the […]
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Luton Town’s Mick Harford, who singled out Napoli’s Diego Maradona in the semi final of the UEFA Cup Following on from the three earlier articles in this series, I am writing a fictional piece on what would have happened if only Liverpool were banned from European football in the 1980’s.Many English teams missed out on […]
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Coventry City became yet another English team to qualify for European football for the first time after a 3-2 victory over Tottenham Hotspur in the 1987 FA Cup Final. They went into the First Round draw of the Cup Winners Cup.Arsenal won the other domestic cup, beating Liverpool 2-1 in the League Cup at Wembley […]
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“Get down to the Manor Ground Marty, I hear there’s European football being played down there. It won’t happen again, so be quick!” Following on from last week’s article about what could have happened all English clubs except Liverpool were still allowed to enter European competitions in the late 80’s, this time I have written […]
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“You’d best get this on film Marty, I can’t see Oxford getting back into Europe any time soon!” I’ve been trying to think of a subject matter for this series for a while and have finally come up with one. It is an idea that came from a terrible tragedy but something that even now […]
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Manchester United’s Alan Shearer had more to celebrate in an England shirt than in his club’s colours in his first season at Old Trafford In the first part of this article, Newcastle United won the 1995/96 Premiership title and Alex Ferguson was about to start a complete rebuilding of the Manchester United squad. The United […]
Keegan in his famous rant on Sky Sports A little over 24 years ago, Kevin Keegan had a mini-meltdown live on Sky Sports after his Newcastle United side won 1-0 at Leeds United to close the gap on leaders Manchester United to three points. Newcastle United had a game in hand and only two games […]