
Last week, prior to the Israel – Russia game, I read in one of the papers that if England failed to qualify 40,000 English fans would still make the journey to Austria and Switzerland to watch Euro 2008. The same article said that if England do qualify, over a 100,000 fans would make the trip.
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It is more than twenty years ago that Ken Bates had come up with the idea of installing an electric fence around the Stamford Bridge playing area to keep fans out after a pitch invasion following a League Cup semi final match against Sunderland. Looking back it now, it was probably nothing more than Ken’s […]

A quick run over the players who played in Serie A in the eighties makes the present Premiership line up pale into insignificance. Apart from the 22 players who won the World Cup for Italy in 1982, the following were regulars with their respective clubs – Platini and Boniek at Juventus, the Brazilians Falcao and […]