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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
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🇧🇷 🇺🇾 #WorldCup70 SF, Estadio #Jalisco, #Guadalajara 🇲🇽

#SpartakTrnava 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 #Champions of #Czechoslovakia, 1967/68 🇨🇿 🇸🇰 Coached by Anton Malatinský and fired by the goals of Jozef Adamec, the Slovaks - #BíliAndeli (The White Angels) - won the 1st of 5 #Czechoslovak First League titles spanning a short 6 years.

Gerson wraps his left foot around a shitpinger that re-establishes 🇧🇷 #Brazil's lead - 2-1 - against 🇮🇹 #Italy in the 🇲🇽 #WorldCup70 Final 🇲🇽 at Estadio #Azteca, Ciudad de #México. #Seleção #Azzurri #WorldCupGold

Introducing my new book: Worst Game Ever - 19 chapters (featuring 6 wonderful guest chapters) that capture the gut-punch lows of football fandom. #worstgameever Out August 11, 2025 - Pre-order here 👇 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/worst-g...

#NottsCounty beat #Brighton 3-1 at #Wembley in the 1991 Play-Off Final, a nadir for 9-year old #Seagulls fan named Michael Hamlen @80s90sfootball and a #worstgameever for the south coast club. Read Michael's brilliant chapter here 👇 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/worst-g...

Mr. & Mrs. Dasayev receive a house call from the local branch of the KGB after infringing on the Soviet 'one telly per household' Party directive.

Ron Saunders welcomes the brilliantly creative Tony Morley to #AstonVilla after his move from #Burnley in 1979. Ron had his faults; obstinate, hot-headed, outspoken, but nobody could ever criticise his managerial prowess or his eye for a player.

🇲🇽 #WorldCup86 🇲🇽 Opening Ceremony Both educational and sexually exploitative.

#CFBarcelona 🇪🇸, overwhelming favourites to win the 1986 ECF; an opportunity to challenge the European dominance of #RealMadrid & strike a moral blow for #Catalunya, choked against #Steaua 🇷🇴 - #Blaugrana's #worstgameever. www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/worst-g...

Led by player/coach Zihni Gjinali , #DinamoTirana were crowned Champions of #Albania in 1955. Level on points with #Partizani with an inferior GD, #Blute - The Blues - took the title via the now defunct metric of goals average. www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/inside-...

Luis Fernandez, #PSG & #France, the fourth-wheel in a #LesBleus midfield quartet that beguiled world football between the early/mid-1980s. Technically superb, Fernandez aided 🇫🇷 to their 1984 #Euro win and was voted French POTY in 1985.

A snapshot harking to a simpler - better - era when a child's life was an exclusively 'outdoors' experience, when kids interacted face-to-face and where every strip of inner-city land was a potential venue for an impromptu cup final. 📸 #britishculturearchive - #Instagram

A spectacular moment in an unspectacular contest. #Brazil & #Yugoslavia play out a tame 0-0 stalemate during their 🇩🇪 #WorldCup1974 🇩🇪 opener at the #Waldstadion, #Frankfurt.

🇮🇹 Benvenuti in Italia 🇮🇹 Ciao; the #Italia90 mascot, makes an appearance.

Ouch!

Hans-Jürgen Riediger - #GDR/#DDR/#EastGermany & #DynamoBerlin scored 105 goals and won 5 DDR #Oberliga titles with #DieWeinroten representing Weltmeister der Freundschaftsspiele - the National Team - 41 times, winning Olympic football gold in 1976.

🇩🇪 #adidas #Bundesliga 80/81 🇩🇪 #Bayern #Schalke04 #BVB #FCKoln #MSVDuisburg #DarmstadtSC #VfLBochum #VfBStuttgart #EintrachtBraunschweig #SCKarlsruher #ArminiaBeilefeld #FCKaiserslautern #EintrachtFrankfurt #BayerLeverkusen #Nuremburg

📸 courtesy of #britishculturearchive - #Instagram

📸 & 🎨 courtesy of art&hue.com

Théophile Abega was a Cameroonian international in 61 appearances between 1976 and 1987 and joined Toulouse FC in 1984/85. Stephen Keshi, Nigerian international in 68 performances from 1981 to 1994 and here he joined RC Strasbourg from 1991 to 1993. @refbooks.bsky.social

🇨🇿 🇸🇰 #Slavia & #Dukla make their exit after the former's 2-1 win in November 1967. It was a poor year for all the #Praha clubs, #Dukla finishing highest - 4th - behind #Slovakian troika, champions #SpartakTrnava, #SlovanBratislava & Jednota #Trenčín 🇨🇿 🇸🇰

Incoming !!! www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/worst-g...

A wonderful overhead shot of Stadiumi Selman Stermasi backdropped by the city of #Tirana 🇦🇱.

A Different View Johan Neeskens lashes home a 1st-minute #Netherlands 🇳🇱 penalty against #WestGermany 🇩🇪 in the 1974 #WorldCupFinal at the #Olympiastadion, #Munich.

#Dundee bit-part striker Albert Kidd sweeps home the 2nd of a brace that denied #Hearts the #ScottishPremier in May 1986, #TheJambos #worstgameever. #PitchPublishing #JamTarts #DundeeFC Featured in my forthcoming book, out August 11, 2025. Order here 👇 www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/worst-g...

#Scotland's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Gordon Strachan pulls the trigger to give the #TartanArmy a 1-0 lead in their Group E 🇲🇽 #WorldCup86 🇲🇽 fixture against #WestGermany at the Estadio La Corregidora, #Queretaro.

The vehicles of #Albanian Party of Labour members park up at Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, #Tirana prior to the 1961 Kampionati Kombëtar - National Championship - Play-Off between #Partizani & #Dinamo; a 1-1 draw, Partizani winning the replay 1-0 to take the title crown.

#UnionBerlin win the 1967/68 #DDR FDGB #POKALFINALE beat huge favourites, #CarlZeissJena 2-1; Meinhard Uentz & Ralf Quest scoring, after #CZJ took the lead inside 30 seconds. It was to prove #Union's only #EastGerman trophy win.

A tale beautifully told by #PitchPublishing author Matt Tiller.

#USSR/#Uzbekistani 🇺🇿 forward, Berador Abduraimov; widely considered his country's finest ever player, top-scored in the #Soviet Top League in 1968 for hometown club, #PakhtakorTashkent & led his country to 1994 #AsianGames victory as national team manager.

Stadiumi #Gjirokaster 🇦🇱 as viewed from Kalaja e Gjirokastrës.

🇧🇷 #Seleção #WorldCup82 🇪🇸, with a few notable omissions 🇧🇷

Not football, but ... immensely sad to hear of Sly Stone's passing. The word 'genius' is bandied around too readily, but Sly was one of the rare beings actually touched by it. Fly high, Sly.

Britain, 20BC (Before Computers)

17 Nentori & Albania 🇦🇱 legends, Petrit Dibra & Arben 'Big Ben' Minga undergo physical testing prior to a Kampionati Kombëtar fixture in the 1975/76 season. The whole story of football in Stalinist #Albania is told here 👇 in my debut book. www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/inside-...

Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion (1950-1973)/Stadion der Weltjugend (1973-1992), #Mitte District, East #Berlin Inaugurated in 1950, built to the socialist architectural template, the stadium hosted the annual FGDB #Pokalfinale before its post-communist era closure in 1992.

Ali Mema - #Braziliani (The Brazilian) - and Lin Shllaku pictured during 🇦🇱 #Albania's WCQ v #NorthernIreland in 1965. The 1-1 draw at Stadiumi Qemal Stafa, #Tirana, in the final group game denied George Best and the #Irish their place at #WorldCup1966 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

'Don your tin helmets, you've arrived in E13.'