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footballarchive: Johan Cruyff, a fully enlightened footballer...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:53:16 -0500

Johan Cruyff, a fully enlightened footballer who realizes drinking is the only way to achieve true happiness. Stocking up on Duty-free at Schiphol Airport, September 1970.

Source: ANP

thevintagefootballclub: St James’ Park during the fifties....

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:46:43 -0500

thevintagefootballclub:

St James’ Park during the fifties. Newcastle United.

Homes of Football (@HOMESofFOOTBALL) tweeted at 6:30 PM on Fri, Dec 21, 2012: #GoalsIWentMentalAt...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:30:36 -0500

Homes of Football (@HOMESofFOOTBALL) tweeted at 6:30 PM on Fri, Dec 21, 2012: #GoalsIWentMentalAt well not me.But you. I was taking the photo.Balancing on roof #nufc #safc ƒoto©stuartroyclarke http://t.co/fx04mN4C (https://twitter.com/HOMESofFOOTBALL/status/282176276410818560) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download

class-struggle-anarchism: against modern football

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:15:26 -0500

class-struggle-anarchism:

against modern football

"We footballers belonging to the various clubs in the Paris region have today decided to occupy the..."

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:18:45 -0500

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We footballers belonging to the various clubs in the Paris region have today decided to occupy the headquarters of the French Football Federation. Just like the workers are occupying their factories, and the students occupying their faculties. Why?

IN ORDER TO GIVE BACK TO THE 600,000 FRENCH FOOTBALLERS AND TO THEIR THOUSANDS OF FRIENDS WHAT BELONGS TO THEM: FOOTBALL. WHICH THE PONTIFFS OF THE FEDERATION HAVE EXPROPRIATED FROM THEM IN ORDER TO SERVE THEIR EGOTISTICAL INTERESTS AS SPORTS PROFITEERS…

…Now it’s up to you: footballers, trainers, managers of small clubs, countless friends and fans of football, students and workers - to preserve the quality of your sport by joining us to…

…DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE DISMISSAL (by means of a referendum of the 600,000 footballers, controlled by themselves) of the profiteers of football and the insulters of the footballers.

FREE FOOTBALL FROM THE TUTELAGE OF THE MONEY OF THE PATHETIC PRETEND-PATRONS who are at the root of the decay of football. And demand from the state the SUBSIDIES that it accords to all other sports, and which the pontiffs of the Federation have never claimed.

So that football may remain yours, we call on you to MAKE YOUR WAY WITHOUT DELAY to the headquarters of the Federation which has again become YOUR HOUSE, at 60 Avenue d’Iena, Paris.

United, we will make football once again what it ought never to have ceased to be - the sport of joy, the sport of the world of tomorrow which all the workers have started building. EVERYONE TO 60 AVENUE D’IENA!

”

- Footballer’s Action Committee, Paris 1968, from the occupied headquarters of the French Football Federation (via class-struggle-anarchism)

POW football teams, c. 1945

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:44:38 -0400

POW football teams, c. 1945

thevintagefootballclub: “I am an anti-Cruyff, I am an...

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:14:07 -0400

thevintagefootballclub:

“I am an anti-Cruyff, I am an anarchist”. Rob Rensenbrink. RSC Anderlecht.

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Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:57:23 -0400

footysphere: Soviet Football 1977 Just picked up a 1970s Soviet...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:16:33 -0400

footysphere:

Soviet Football 1977

Just picked up a 1970s Soviet pocket-sized football annual off ebay for a couple of quid. Written, as you would expect, in Russian so absolutely no idea what it says. It does however have these nice cartoon-style depictions of various Soviet teams. If anyone could help out with identifying the teams and translating the captions that would be awesome.

12/08/11 - UPDATE: It’s written in Ukrainian not Russian. It appears that the brochure is a guide to the 1977 Soviet football season but also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Dynamo Kiev who were founded in 1927.

footysphere: Vintage Victorian football scene

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 08:09:19 -0400

footysphere:

Vintage Victorian football scene

interleaning: 17-year-old Bobby Robson with Fulham boss Bill...

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:35:52 -0400

interleaning:

17-year-old Bobby Robson with Fulham boss Bill Dodgin, 1950.

interleaning: Johan Cruyff, 1970.

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:30:07 -0400

interleaning:

Johan Cruyff, 1970.

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Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:50:43 -0400

pitchinvasion: Frank Soo, Stoke City star pictured on Nov. 18,...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:24:29 -0400

pitchinvasion:

Frank Soo, Stoke City star pictured on Nov. 18, 1933. Soo was born in Derbyshire, son of a Chinese sailor, and played 12 years for Stoke, one of the first ethnic minority players in England’s Football League.

(AP Photo/Staff/Putnam)

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indiezizou: On the eve of his Birthday a teenage Paul Gascoigne...

Mon, 28 May 2012 14:36:01 -0400

indiezizou:

On the eve of his Birthday a teenage Paul Gascoigne at Newcastle, Afro & all #whenyouwereyoung #Gazza #nufc (Taken with instagram)

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