24 June 2023
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“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.” The great Bill Shankly’s famous
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18 June 2023
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A member of Kilmarnock FC’s in house media team once revealed some career advice he had been given by the then Rugby Park boss, Steve
8 April 2023
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Another Old Firm game, another win for Celtic and another league title heads to the east end of Glasgow. In the build up to this
16 March 2023
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Welcome to Eclectic Football Interest. This is a page by an amateur writer who has a wide ranging passion for the beautiful game. On this
9 March 2023
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Ernst Franz Hermann Happel was one of the greatest football managers of all time. Not only in terms of trophies won, his influence tactically can
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The Football Conversations Episode 5 – Michael Grant – Aberdeen under Sir Alex Ferguson
24 November 2024
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The natives of Aberdeen are no strangers to adverse weather conditions. Gale force winds in spring? No problem. Rain of biblical proportions in summer? Likewise. In 1978 however, a tornado struck The Granite City with such force its impact reverberated throughout the whole of Scottish football for the best part of a decade. Nothing could’ve prepared them for it and for better and worse, things would never be the same again. Billy McNeill spent a solitary season managing Aberdeen before he upped sticks and headed back south to Glasgow to replace the legendary Jock Stein. McNeill’s hero status with Celtic,
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