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The Absolute Game Remembered – 18 28 Jun 2011 | 09:14 pm
18-60 Munchen Mad Mac expressly notes on the front page that the numbering system is ‘becoming tenuous’. Also on the front page, if you squint you’ll be able to see it here, are the plaintive words ...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 17 10 May 2011 | 10:49 pm
17 Nentori The numbering of this issue reaches new heights/depths of the arcane. Unless you are well up on Albanian football of the 1940/50′s then this one may pass you by. 17 Nentori was the name ...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 16 24 Apr 2011 | 09:44 pm
Hat-Trick 16 League reconstruction, as ever, is on the agenda. This time its purpose appeared to be to save Dundee from relegation – it turned out that nothing could save Dundee from relegation, leas...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 15 30 Mar 2011 | 10:07 am
2nd Half – 15 I told you the numbering process was obscure. Mad Mac inveighs editorially against the football authorities, whose cardinal sin is said to be that they completely ignore anything and e...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 14 7 Mar 2011 | 01:14 am
2nd Round 1st Leg – 14 As you see, the numbering system has become obscure, but basically having had the first 13 we’re now reverting to no 1 again – at least we are until it becomes too difficult an...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 13 13 Feb 2011 | 04:05 am
Likely 13 This was the first edition after the Hillsborough disaster and Mad Mac doesn’t rush to judgement, but instead asks that whatever lessons are learned are suitably heeded and applied in Scotl...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 12 9 Feb 2011 | 11:29 am
ONE-TWO 12 TAG celebrates Scotland’s World Cup victory in Cyprus by lavishing praise on our man-of-the-match, Siegfried Kirschen. A conspicuously non-Scottish name and a name you may have now forgott...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 11 2 Feb 2011 | 08:28 am
Alternative XI Rounding up 1988, Mad Mac’s editorial calls it ‘the year of the silly bugger’ citing the antics of such worthies as Jim McLean, Louis Thow (the referee who awarded Neil Simpson a mere ...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 10 29 Jan 2011 | 11:35 am
Top 10 The cover price has increased to 50p, but there’s a letter from Mrs G Peabody from Fochabers (aka Mad Mac) saying, “I think in fact that TAG is now even better value for money than ever. and h...
The Absolute Game Remembered – 9 21 Jan 2011 | 08:25 am
9 Past Haffey This edition of TAG came to me through the post direct from Mad Mac, and I was beside myself with excitement to find that my finely-wrought, oft-revised, long slaved-over article about ...
