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By Gary Oswald. Paul Dickov nine years after the inciting event. Photo copyright Wikipedia editor 'hst43077' but allowed for any purpose. On the 30th of May 1999 in Wembley Stadium, one of the most important moments in British sport happened. It was the 94th minute of a 90-minute Association Football game, with the score at 2-1. Five minutes had been awarded for stoppage time and so in desperation, with only a minute of the game left, the trailing team played a long ball forw

By Charles EP Murphy. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 86th contest was Workers . Right. This was going to be the tricky bit. Gene Narvy was going to have to: A) Land his jumping dropkick on Paul Plunder perfectly B) Not look to make sure his partner Tommy Frank had landed his one perfectly, by which he meant Tommy had "botched" the kick

By Gary Oswald. Argentina and France's national teams battle for the ball on the cover of a 1954 sports mag. Picture in public domain and courtesy wikimedia commons. Rugby Union, like a lot of sports, was first codified in the UK and as such the four home nations (England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland) have traditionally been the heartland of the game. From there it spread to France where it became popular, helped by Vichy France banning the rival Rugby League code in 1941 and

By Gary Oswald. WOS Wrestling logo, though cropped from an STV ad rather than an ITV one! Few fandoms have embraced the ‘what if’...