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By Ollie Irish

Pies remembers the days when footballers would sign new contracts in front of the camera. These days they just hold up a shirt and grin.

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Denis Law smiles at Manchester United manager Matt Busby as he puts pen to paper in July 1962

Photos: PA

Two words: Keegan’s hair. Two more words: F**king disgrace.

By Ollie Irish on September 1st, 2010 in Featured, Photos, Retro, Top 10s & lists. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Brian says:

September 1, 2010 at 12:42 pm

Francis is the head off Paul Weller in that photo !
qwerty says:

September 1, 2010 at 12:53 pm

George best kinda looks like berbatov here
Chris says:

September 1, 2010 at 1:36 pm

And Denis Law looks disconcertingly like Liberace in the first photo!
Lloyd says:

September 1, 2010 at 2:08 pm

Why the fuck is Clough holding a Badminton racket?
Jack says:

September 1, 2010 at 5:18 pm

Clough didn’t want Francis getting a big head about being such a star signing, so he quickly wrapped up the signing and then went off to play a game or two of Badminton.
Trololololo says:

September 1, 2010 at 8:02 pm

There’s something very wrong about the Keegan photo… it looks as if each of their heads is about to fall off