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Regista: The football blog that kisses the badge in celebration of the best aspects of football and surrounds the ref to complain in vain about the worst.Covering topics across the football world, including: Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, the Champions League, the English Premier League and Championship football.
Category Archives: Hunting in Pairs
Hunting in Pairs: Jurgen Klinsmann and Rudi Völler, Germany and West Germany.
Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are so hot right now. But, as with so many of the most significant cultural reference points, German football was hotter in the 1990’s – at the 1990 World Cup, to be precise. There was that kit, … Continue reading
Hunting in pairs: Ivan Zamorano and Marcelo Salas, Chile
Time to go back to the 90’s again for some HOT FRONT TWO action, this time courtesy of Chile’s finest, Ivan Zamorano and Marcelo Salas (AKA ‘El Matador’). Chile has a reasonably well established football history; the national team participated … Continue reading
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Tagged 90s, Brazil, Chile, France 98, Inter, Lazio, Real Madrid, Serie A, South America, World Cup 1994, World Cup 1998
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Hunting in Pairs: Shevchenko and Rebrov, Dynamo Kyiv
If you’re thinking about strikers in the 90’s – and, why would you want to look at any other decade – you’d struggle to find a pair that better epitomise the best aspects of the front two than Dynamo Kyiv’s … Continue reading
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Tagged AC Milan, Asprilla, Champions League, juventus, Manchester United, Milan, Newcastle, Tottenham
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Hunting in pairs: Vialli and Mancini, Sampdoria.
So, I said I was going to look at some classic front two partnerships. This is the first one. Drink in the nostalgia. Gianluca Vialli was expected to be the main goal threat for Italy at the 1990 World Cup. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chelsea, Italia 90, juventus, Man City, Sampdoria, Schillaci
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An obsolete football cliché: The best strikers hunt in pairs
Something extraordinary happened on Saturday. Something that many of us thought we’d never see. Andre Vilas Boas – one of football’s great modernisers – elected to field a Spurs team that would line up against Arsenal in a 4-4-2 formation. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Cole, Dwight Yorke, Edmundo, John Toshack, Kevin Keegan, Kevin Phillips, Niall Quinn, Peter Beardsley, Romario
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