After all the shenanigans with Uefa, Crystal Palace are now ready to take their bow in a major European competition, albeit the lesser Conference League. Palace have been involved in Europe before but only in minor competitions – three entries into the Anglo-Italian tournament and the long-forgotten 1998 Intertoto Cup campaign in which they lostContinue reading “Successful European debuts plus ‘It Started with a Kick’ Episode 71 – David Preece”
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‘It Started With a Kick’ – Episode 70 Ian Danter
Ian will be a familiar voice to many as he’s a regular commentator on talkSPORT. Having started in local radio with BRMB, originally with comedy sketches, Ian then went on to doing match reports on West Midlands clubs for BRMB & Capital Gold before moving to talkSPORT in 2004. Not only has he covered domesticContinue reading “‘It Started With a Kick’ – Episode 70 Ian Danter”
It Started With a Kick : Episode 65
It Started With a Kick – Episode 65 : Phil Harrison Phil Harrison runs the Fussball Geekz podcast which casts an eye over Eastern European football and especially Albania and East Germany. His books such as ‘Inside the Hermit Kingdom : Football Stories from inside Stalinist Albania’ and the ‘Worst Game Ever’ which delves intoContinue reading “It Started With a Kick : Episode 65”
Euros Nuggets Group matches ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 12 – John Bennett
EUROS NUGGETS II Group matches The Group of Dearth England’s group turned out to be about as much fun as having root canal without an anaesthetic. One win, five draws, seven goals was the grim total. There have only been three goalless draws in 36 matches so far and group C provided two of them. Continue reading “Euros Nuggets Group matches ‘It Started With a Kick’ episode 12 – John Bennett”
Premier League Nuggets 2023/24 season
Each week throughout the season The Football Mine will share a couple of choice Premier League Nuggets for your delectation, whetting your appetite for the forthcoming matches. Week 1 In Week 1 of last season’s Premier League there were four own goals, which set the pace for the third highest number of own goals inContinue reading “Premier League Nuggets 2023/24 season”
The 300 Club – current players who have made 300 appearances for one club Part One
Nearly all the attention was focused on a player who was not going to play. Even the BBC got wrapped up in the “Will he? Won’t he?” saga, with 5 Live’s football correspondent John Murray commentating on which Tottenham players he could spot as they trooped off the team bus and made their way aroundContinue reading “The 300 Club – current players who have made 300 appearances for one club Part One”
Own Goals Part One – Keepers’ Clangers
They are football’s equivalent of tragicomedies. Own goals litter the football landscape with an intoxicating mixture of laughter and tears. Over the next few weeks here on The Football Mine I will be publishing an occasional series of pieces that focus on these captivating slices of football history, those little vignettes that can define aContinue reading “Own Goals Part One – Keepers’ Clangers”
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