The next entry in the great footballers you've never seen... Ask your Dad or Grandad and they'll have very clear memories of watching The Gentle Giant: The 6ft 2in Welsh legend was originally signed in 1948 by Leeds United after a trial and initially played at centre half. In fact in his first team debut (in a friendly against Queen Of
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Sadly I have next to nothing when it comes to songs related to the Wales team (Welsh team ?) Possibly because they don't have much to sing about, which is a pity because I would have liked to have seen Ian Rush or Mark Hughes or Ryan Giggs and Craig Bellamy play in at least one major final. (In the case of Bellamy there's still Euro 2012...?) Aa
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Tags: Wales
The originator of the original football phone in returns to the airwaves this coming Saturday morning (5th Sept). I noticed I think about three quarters of the way through last season, that the Beeb had him back on 6-0-6 on Tuesday nights. Luckily there was a podcast done of the entire show, so I was able to listen in. (Because of the timezo
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This is the 4th entry looking at music used in films about football. [Previous one here] This next film was a Hollywood vehicle intended to launch someone into future starring roles. What happens is the person in question was a support in a.n.other movie and subsequently got a lot of notice in this role (c.f: Russell Brand in Forgetting Sarah
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This is via Funny Or Die, which if you haven't visited yet go and have a look after watching one Vincent Peter Jones, former professional fouler footballer, now an established Hollywood luvvie in a spoof advert for the Vinnie Jones Attack Cardiology Workout DVD's: » Link to video Is it me or does it look like Jonesy has some hamster c
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Putting the trip around Germany on pause for now because there are some World Cup Qualifiers and International Friendlies involving some of the home nations this week. I want to get these next few out there before the matches kick off on Wednesday which I'll probably fail to do, but I'll give it a go. Starting with... As it is well known th
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mickmills: i think saint & greavsie nicked the theme for ...
Teena: highly shoutable .. AAMOF I can hear already the l...
Teena: Johnny it is then, but just because you forced me ...
Jol: I am one of Fabio's biggest fans. Judging by the w...
lesley: Hi: Does anyone know if Football was in the famil...
e-rawk: Oh yeah! That Weddoes "Our Lips" cover you tweete...
e-rawk: Good stuff!...
erik hogstrom: I have always wanted to write a blog post about th...
Anthonio: I was born after the 1990 world cup (Sorry if I ma...
erik hogstrom: Love this song. It should have been the '90 World ...
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