GONE GROUNDS – DOUGLAS PARK In 1874, James Blacklock, the rector of the Hamilton Academy school in the South Lanarkshire town 12 miles south...

Swansea-born TREVOR FORD was a late starter in professional football due to wartime hostilities. Ford was born in 1922 and as a youngster he had...

BY Vince Cooper LUTON Town have had their glory days. Few will forget the sight of David Pleat running across the pitch, coat flapping after the...

THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE QUIGLEY Johnny Morris’s British record would last almost until the end of 1949. Then in December...

BY Vince Cooper WHEN Wolverhampton Wanderers took on the Hungarian team Kispest Honved at Molineux in 1954, the game was billed (mostly in the...

3PM ON SATURDAY – WHY? The 19th century Factories Act included a Law that factory work should stop a 2pm on Saturdays. This encouraged...

BY Vince Cooper READING FC were formed on Christmas Day 1871 at the Bridge Street Rooms with Joseph Edward Sydenham as the club’s driving force....

BY Vince Cooper DUMBARTON are currently competing in League One in Scotland having recently been relegated from the Championship. But there was a...

THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JOHNNY MORRIS JOHNNY MORRIS who was described as a ‘quick clever robust little inside-right’ was...

THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – LEN SHACKLETON Notts County’s surprise reign as the biggest spenders in British Football lasted a mere...

THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – TOMMY LAWTON If Billy Steel’s move to Derby, and even more so the one to Dundee came as shocks, imagine...

THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – BILLY STEEL League football resumed after the 2nd World War in 1946-47 but clubs would wait a year...