BY Vince Cooper JUST how important was Eusebio to world football? He was the first great African import to the European game and was a real pioneer,...

HUGHIE FERGUSIN Hughie Ferguson was a goalscoring hero in Scotland. In 1927 He became one in Wales when he scored the goal that won the F.A Cup for...

BY Vince Cooper JUST after the start of the 20th century, goalkeeper Billy Scott joined Everton from Irish team Linfield. He quickly became a...

BY Vince Cooper To some degree, calling Millmoor a ‘Gone Ground’ is incorrect as youth football is still occasionally played on the pitch to this...

By Vince Cooper CARDIFF City Football Club were founded in 1899 and were originally called Riverside A.F.C. Walter Bartley Wilson had put up a...

By Vince Cooper The return of football after the 2nd World War was gradual and many stadia required extensive work after either being struck during...

By Vince Cooper Gerry and Joe Baker were sons of a sailor. Which goes some way towards explaining their convoluted international history. The...

WALES have a fine history of producing top-class strikers with John Charles ‘The Gentle Giant’ going down as perhaps the greatest. As Charles’s...

BY Vince Cooper In Glasgow-speak a ‘Wee Barra’ is usually used to refer to a small person who people like, Bobby Collins might not have been liked...

Keith Weller was one of those players during the late 1960s and mostly the 1970s who fans from every club admired. And yet there is a feeling that...

By Vince Cooper Gordon West was born in Darfield near Barnsley in 1943 and went to the same local school as Mark Jones, the Manchester United...

GONE GROUNDS – PLOUGH LANE (AND THE WIMBLEDON COMMON DAYS) Above: Wimbledon Greyhound and Speedway Stadium with Plough Lane at the top in 1928...