Press Articles (written)

 

This section contains both media articles for Dream Team and pieces written specially for the site. All sources credited.

 

 

 

 

14/10/22  |  Launching a new version of Harchester United's FA Cup winning shirt of 1999 with The Campaign Against Living Miserably and S66 Sportswear, football author and the man behind the A Funny Old Game site, Sid Lambert takes us back to the shirt's original Season 2 finale outing on The Sportsman.

24/06/22  |  Article celebrating the life and career of Nina Muschallik, who played Nikki Peggs.

25/03/20  |  Off The Ball's Colm Boohig counts down his take on the 10 Greatest Harchester United players.

13/03/20  |  Sports site Off The Ball's Eoin Sheahan has begun a Dream Team Binge while all sporting events are on hold, starting from the show's earliest available episodes in Season 1.

31/07/19  |  "Harchester United are my football club" Ex-Shortlist writer Alex Christian featured piece on what the show and club means to me and on the mission of collecting Harchester memoribillia.

18/10/17  As part of their Dream Team Week, long-time DT supporting sports super-site Balls.ie included Diehard for a piece in Mikey Traynor's 20th Anniversary series of articles "Was 'Dream Team' Actually Good? We Asked The Last True Harchester United Die-Hard"

31/07/17  |   DT@20 Articles: What Became of the 13 Original Cast from Dream Team's beginning. Third 20th anniversary article looking at that special cast from the first episode.

29/04/17  |   DT@20 Articles: 15 Characters who could have been brilliant... but weren't around long enough! Second article in our anniversary series, celebrating Dream Team's most underrated.

21/02/17  |   DT@20 Articles: Frank Stone and how Dream Team handled the story of a gay footballer. With new comment from the man behind Frank, actor Colin Parry.

13/09/16  |   Piece by Jonny Sharples on joe.co.uk, where he speaks to Neil Newbon (Luke) and bags the only interview with Terry Kiely (Fletch) since the show finished!

12/07/16  |   Piece by Steven Fyfe on his blog L.I.F.E. (Living In Fyfe's Eyes), with new comment and quotes from Daymon Britton (Sean), Phil Barantini (Billy), Marem Hassler (Pilar) and James William Watts (Lee)

08/02/15  |  Article by Carl on his taking of the Millennium Stadium tour and checking out the locations used during Dream Team's visits for four Season 8 and 9 episodes.

01/05/14  |  Number of online articles written following the death of Pedro Cunha, who played Hector Da Silva in DT Season 9. Translated from Spanish and Portuguese into English.

03/12/09  |  Sports reporter Carl Field's interview with Junior McDougald for the Bedfordshire Times and Citizen, discussing Junior's signing for Bedford in December 2009 and how he appeared as a team player in the middle seasons of DT [posted on DTdh 10.09.14]

 

28/03/08  |  BBC606 article on the bizarre proposition to rename Mansfield Town Football Club Harchester United by a potential buyer in 2008 [posted on DTdh 14.01.12]

 

29/10/06  |  Dedicated to female personalities who bare all, nudography.com counted down their top ten DT females ahead of Season 10's opening episode airing [posted on DTdh 14.01.12]

17/04/06  |  Clemency Burton-Hill's (Georgina Jacobs) Guardian article on Dream Team's cancellation and her time on the show [posted on DTdh 09.07.11]

11/04/06  |  Jane Hewland's interview with Maggie Brown on MediaGuardian.co.uk regarding Dream Team's cancellation [posted on DTdh 04.07.11]