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Ten stories that haven’t been written yet, but you’ll read this summer
If there’s no football matches being played, then you have to fill the sports pages exclusively with transfer rumours. In the two months between now and the start of the 2009/10 season, you’ll see plenty of formulaic guff written, and you’ll have to work out to separate the news from the speculation. But for a…
Football Fork – 25 May 2005 – Liverpool try valiantly but cannot win the Champions League Final
How different it all might have been if Liverpool had not won the 2005 Champions League. Although it looked impossible at half-time, Benitez managed to find a way through AC Milan, led by the irrepressible Steven Gerrard. As such, it capped an extraordinary season, earnt them a spot in Europe, and marked Benitez out as…
Primetime Football – Rafael Benitez, 48, from Liverpool, the quiz-show contestant
Chris Tarrant: Welcome back to another episode of Who wants to buy some pampered millionaires? – the show where we ask fifteen questions and fifteen correct answers can win you a Sheikh’s ransom for the summer. I’m joined today by Rafael, 48, from Liverpool. So Rafael, how are you feeling so far? Rafael: I am…
Football fork — May 6 2006 — Spurs boys skip lasagne, have a curry, qualify for Champions League
How could the pre-match ritual of a night in the Marriott before a big London fixture go so terribly wrong for Tottenham? Beat West Ham the following day, and Arsenal could not overake them in the race for the last of the Champions League spots. After tucking in to a lasagne, food poisoning overcame most…
Football Fork – May 1996 – Keegan’s mind-games spur Newcastle to the title
Was the failure to capture the 1995/6 Premiership having at one stage enjoyed a 12 point lead the beginning of the end for the Newcastle dream and Kevin Keegan’s managerial credibility? This week we ponder what might have been if the Magpies’ favourite cheerleading manager had won the battle of the mind-games and led the…
Football fork – January 2007 – Liverpool bought by the DIC group
About ten years ago Nick Hancock co-wrote a book called What Didn’t Happen Next, which was an amusing look at the butterfly effect in football and those little changes which might have rewritten the annals of football. What if Southgate had scored his penalty at Euro 1996? What if Gordon Banks hadn’t had food poisoning…
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