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Long read: It's not the economy, stupid – how football cost Labour a general election
By Paul Simpson last updated
England When Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson decided to hold the 1970 general election during the World Cup, he was concerned what effect England's performance could have. Then, four days before the vote, the Three Lions were knocked out...
Remembered! When nobody but Liverpool won the League Cup
By Richard Edwards last updated
Rich Edwards recalls a time when success in the competition was a matter of course for the Merseysiders
When the FA Cup third round lasted 66 DAYS: 261 postponements, snow drifts... and flame-throwers
By Paul Simpson last updated
FA Cup Paul Simpson relives the Arctic anarchy of 1962/63, when the winter weather played havoc with the football fixtures. One team, dubbed the 'Ice Kings', somehow survived...
Bullfighter, stamper… legend: why Juanito is an all-time Real Madrid hero
By Andrew Murray published
Action Replay No Madrid player is more beloved by die-hard Blancos than the irascible wideman, who died in a car crash at 37 – though Lothar Matthaus wasn’t a fan...
When Portsmouth’s 6.57 Crew tried to hijack the general election – and accidentally helped the Tories win
By Richard Edwards published
Action Replay Docker Hughes’s notorious firm were better known for causing chaos wherever they went in the 1980s, but made headlines of a different kind when their leader ran for office with a madcap manifesto
Long read: The making of Jose Mourinho – how did he go from 'the translator' to 'the Special One'?
By Andy Mitten published
Action Replay The new Tottenham boss has not had as much success in recent years as he once did – but the story of how he worked himself to the top of the game is one worth telling, explains Andy Mitten
How Liverpool's greatest team failed to rule the world in 1984
By Luke Ginnell published
Action Replay They face Flamengo tonight, as they did in 1981 – but three years later, Joe Fagan’s Reds took on Argentine club Independiente for the honour of becoming world club champions. In order to win it, they would have to overcome one of South America’s finest cup teams and a miserable English record in the competition
The craziest season in English football: when the champions got relegated and ‘Lucky Arsenal’ annoyed the nation
By Jon Spurling published
Action Replay Hapless title holders, unlikely contenders at the top and a glut of mid-ranking sides upsetting the established order – the 1937/38 season was mental from start to finish
Football's greatest-ever title finish? Arsenal's 1989 triumph over Liverpool, told by the players
By Louis Massarella published
Action Replay Before Aguero there was this: George Graham’s rebuilt Arsenal against Liverpool in the final 90 minutes of the entire season. But as a TV audience of millions watched on, no one would have predicted its dramatic conclusion
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