This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE As this tournament progresses, so the decision by the English broadcasting authorities looks ever more foolish. England may well be on a tour of South…
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This feature is a part of RETEUROSPECTIVE Now the party can truly get started. Michel Platini, France’s elegant and masterful playmaker, stamped his authority on this tournament with a hat-trick in Les Bleus’…
Jean-François Larios: laconically stylish footballer, indomitable presence and effortlessly cool in possession of the ball. An excellent penalty taker, he was the free-moving but often deep-lying springboard of the late 1970s and early…
THE POWER OF ONE FOOTBALLER can often have an immeasurable impact on a club. Although the collective efforts of 11 players ultimately trump the effect of a single player, teams can easily…
What are the 1980s famous for? Perhaps the rise of Madonna and Michael Jackson in pop, or MTV bringing a new era into music. Maybe the arrival of Michael Jordan on the…
For many French fans who witnessed the Carré Magique of Platini, Giresse, Fernández and Tigana, there has never been a better midfield
THINK OF SEMI-FINALS BETWEEN FRANCE AND WEST GERMANY and the mind will stray to a balmy night of epic grandeur in the southern Spanish city of Seville in July 1982. That evening, one…
In what was one of football’s greatest games, France took on West Germany in 1982 in a game that featured legends, assaults and unforgettable football