Fussball Geekz
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#PitchPublishing author. Words for ##TheGuardian, #DailyMail, #PitchMag, #3RetroFootball, #Admiral & #TOFFS. Heard on #talkSPORT, #TheseFootballTimes & #FussballGeekz podcast. Access all platforms here 👇 https://linktr.ee/fussballgeekz
#AstonVilla 💜💙🏴 players celebrate their promotion back to the top flight on the final day of the 1987/88 season, a 0-0 draw at #SwindonTown - whilst their nearest rivals #Middlesbrough & #BradfordCity both lost - securing their fate by the narrowest of margins.
#PartizaniTirana 🇦🇱 line up prior to the European Cup Winners Cup 1st Rnd, 2nd Leg tie against #MalmoFF 🇸🇪 at Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, #Tirana in October 1980 - a 0-0 draw which observed the #Swedish club progress 1-0 on aggregate.
In the 2 World Cups in which he shone in 🇮🇹#Azzurri 🇮🇹 blue, nobody did 'touch tight' defending like Claudio Gentile. Dramatic, charismatic & bornite tough, he was the terror of centre-forwards across all continents - an essential component of #Italy's 1982 #WorldCup-winning side.
Sunday Teaser Who is the only player in football history to score hatricks in the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, FA Cup, League Cup & for his country at international level?
The Final Curtain 27/5/1971 - Lev Yashin bids farewell to football, hailed by 103,000 fans at Lenin Stadium, #Moscow, #USSR. After 330 appearances for #DinamoMoscow & 74 caps for the #SovietUnion, The Black Spider - Balon D'Or winner in 1963 - was finally hanging up his gloves.
#WorstGameEver #PitchPublishing Book Signing today! Venue: The White Swan, Digbeth, Birmingham Kick Off: 3.00 p.m. til late 🍺 ⚽️ 📚 Bring your copies to be signed. See you there.
The Earl of Carrot Crunchery, Mick Channon, winds up one of his customary celebratory 'windmills' after bagging for #Southampton at The Dell.
#Subbuteo #FACupFinal 1980 - #WestHamUnited versus #Arsenal Sadly, neither team wore their home colours at #WembleyStadium rendering both sides in need of an urgent re-paint.
🇩🇪 Rainer Bonhof 🇩🇪; World Cup (1), Euros (2), Bundesliga (4), UEFA (1), ECWC (1) & West German (2) & Spanish Cup (1) winner. #BorussiaMönchengladbach #ValenciaCF #FCKöln #HerthaBSC #DFBTeam
ELTON JOHN - 'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' album (1973) The 7th studio album, produced by Gus Dudgeon & includes among the 4 singles, 'Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting', 'Bernie and the Jets' and 'Candle in the Wind'. The album would reach No.1 in the US & UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FG...
The remastered 30-year anniversary version of David Fincher's noir classic, #Seven, comes with a new, 'happy' ending.
19 chapters documenting the very worst moments in a club's history; context, history, legacy. Get it here 👇 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/worst-g...
#DuklaPraha ❤️💛🇨🇿 players test their stamina ascending the staircase that leads upwards towards the Stadion #Juliska, #Praha.
#Nottingham's City Ground prepares for #Forest's 🏴 1979 #EuropeanCup semi-final, 1st Leg against West German 🇩🇪 champions, #FCKoln - a minor classic.
