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Archives for September 2017

I want my Manchester United back

September 28, 2017 By Amnon Zohar Leave a Comment

I want my Manchester United back

I think I have my United back Last year I wrote an entry titled “I want my United Back!” It was around mid-season and I was agonizing over the poor play, lack of leadership, missed opportunities, too many ties and what I perceived to be loss of the core value of United: The will to Read More

24 September, 1957 – Welcome to the Camp Nou the home of the Blaugrana

September 24, 2017 By Amnon Zohar Leave a Comment

On 24 September 1957, Barcelona inaugurated the Camp Nou with a 4-2 win over Legia Warsaw in a friendly. Built over a period of three and half years at a cost of 288 million pesetas, the stadium’s original name was Estadi del FC Barcelona, but it has been known from the beginning as Camp Nou Read More

23 September 1953, Alfredo di Stéfano debuted for Real Madrid

September 23, 2017 By Amnon Zohar Leave a Comment

Nicknamed “the Blond Arrow,” Di Stéfano is considered to be one of the greatest footballers in history. He was born in Buenos Aires on 4 July 1926 and signed his first professional contract in 1944 with River Plate. He stayed with River Plate until 1948, including a brief loan spell with Hurucán. In 1948, as Read More

This has never happened before in Football and could not happen again. A GHOST GOAL!!!

September 20, 2017 By Amnon Zohar 1 Comment

On 20 September 2008, Reading and Watford battled to a 2-2 draw thanks in part to a phantom goal. Played before a crowd of 14,761 at Watford’s Vicarage Road Stadium, the match was scoreless in the 13th minute when Watford midfielder John Eustace, defending his goal against Reading striker Noel Hunt, knocked the ball over Read More

Football’s greatest-ever hoax: Was the 1958 World Cup faked by the CIA?

September 19, 2017 By Amnon Zohar Leave a Comment

By Joe Sharratt Watching grainy footage of a swaggering 17-year-old Pele taking host nation Sweden apart with a blistering brace in Brazil’s 5-2 victory in the 1958 World Cup final, it’s hard to accept the possibility that the entire thing was faked. But according to historian Bror Jacques de Wærn that is exactly the problem; Read More

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