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  • Milner one of a nearly extinct breed

    Milner one of a nearly extinct breed

    James Milner brought the curtain down on a highly commendable career in professional football today. One of almost two and a half decades. Modern football speak might term the 40-year-old a journeyman pro, but to box him off in that category would do him a great disservice. Therein belong media-driven spoofers like Gary Neville and…

  • God help the janitor with United like a toilet seat

    God help the janitor with United like a toilet seat

    I have little or no recollection of the 1991/’92 English soccer season, other than that it was the last in the format of the old First Division prior to the inception of the Premier League. That a Leeds United side managed by Howard Wilkinson and backboned by players such as Tony Dorigo, David Battie, Gary…

  • Two CC’s of shocks as magic of the Cup lives on

    There’s shaky old footage on YouTube of Manchester United defeating Northampton Town 8-2 in the FA Cup of 1970. On a pitch that, while it may not have resembled a ploughed field, definitely had the top worked down on it. That, however, didn’t stop George Best from setting a record by netting six times over…