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Dallas Tornados - The Tour To End All Tours

2 months ago | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

In the summer of 1967 Bill Crosbie, a young Liverpudlian, abandoned both his girlfriend and his job to embark on a world tour with the Dallas Tornadoes, an American soccer team, to play in war-torn Vietnam and experience a rocky reception in Singapore. When the opportunity arose to play for the Tornadoes, Crosbie acted swiftly:“I got home around 10 PM,” he recounted. “I quickly got a haircut, packed a suitcase, and penned a resignation letter to the bus company I worked for.
Fontaine & Kopa Revisit Reims, 1998

Mar 5, 2025 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

1962: A fine Stade de Reims side featuring the brilliant Just Fontaine and Raymond Kopa stroll to a sixth post war French championship success. Twice European Cup finalists previously, the club looks forward to another European campaign as France’s foremost football ambassadors and one of the continent’s elite clubs.
Shorts From France

Sep 25, 2024 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

The latest edition of our regular Shorts feature is distinctly Gallic in outlook, so get ready to shrug nonchalantly as BTLM gamely tries to amuse and inform you about the sometimes wacky world of French football in the 1960s. After a spate of physical attacks by supporters on opposing players and referees in 1960, officials at lower division US Boulogne came up with a novel solution to the problem.
Sixties International Cream

Jul 31, 2024 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

International football in 1960s Europe represented something of a golden era for a number of the continent’s nations. England’s World Cup win in 1966 was an obvious pinnacle for the country that invented the game, but other nations like Portugal, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and even Sweden boasted some of the strongest teams in their own respective histories too. The West Germans were hardly slouches either, although they rarely ever are.
Through the Lens of Henk Blansjaar - Dutch Footballers Wives

Mar 20, 2024 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

We’ve published quite an array of football pictures on BTLM and we’ll readily admit to a fondness for those at the more abstract end of the spectrum. On first sight this particular set of gallery images might appear the most abstract we’ve shared yet – and that’s if you can even discern any obvious reference to football in the first place.
Riva - The Roar Of Thunder

Jan 22, 2024 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

We love the wonderfully descriptive nicknames that the famous Italian journalist Gianni Brera gave to the top Serie A footballers of the day. Luigi Riva was the fortunate recipient of one of his most descriptive: to Brera he was ‘rombo di tuono,‘ or roar of thunder; an elegant and concise encapsulation of the way the Cagliari striker would suddenly explode into life in a dangerous attacking situation. His left foot was brutally powerful and he was famous for the sheer violence of his shooting.
Dutch ‘Outsiders’ Eleven

Jan 16, 2024 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

Ask a footballing layman what they know about Dutch club football and chances are the answer you’ll get will be a splash of Ajax, a pinch of Feyenoord and a smidgen of PSV – a natural response considering the extent to which the giants of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Eindhoven dominate the Dutch game culturally and financially.
All That Glitters Is Not Gold - Rodion Camataru’s 1987 Golden Boot

Sep 6, 2023 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

If peak-era Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi had scored twenty goals within a time frame of six League games and little over three weeks, the football world would have raised its collective hands to applaud their genius. When little-known Romanian striker Rodion Camataru actually, not hypothetically, performed this cartoonishly unlikely feat back in 1987, all the footballing world managed to raise was a collective eyebrow and a number of influential voices in dissent.
Stanley Matthews - The Wizard Of The Comeback

Aug 16, 2023 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

‘SIR STANLEY MATTHEWS TO PLAY AGAINST REAL MADRID IN THE BERNABEU‘ ran the Spanish headline. Surely no particularly dramatic scoop with the legendary English winger playing in most of the world’s great stadiums and against many of the world’s top teams during his lengthy career? But this particular headline was published in 1970 when Stanley Matthews was a near pensionable 55 years of age. The numbers were hard to reconcile.
By The Laws Of Averages - Eight Decades Of The Goal Average Rule

May 24, 2023 | beyondthelastman.com | Craig McCracken

The goal average rule feels like one of those old football anachronisms that should have gone away with the Fairs Cup, black and white television or tossing a coin to decide European ties. It actually endured a lot longer than you might have thought. Based upon the common-sense principle that it would better reward goal scoring, Arsenal’s then chairman Denis Hill-Wood drove the campaign to have goal average dropped in favour of goal difference back in 1969.