BY Vince Cooper As football suffers it’s longest enforced shutdown since the 2nd World War and with no end in sight, let’s look back to 1962-63 when...

In its early days the FA Cup was an almost exclusively southern affair, with the notable exception of the mighty Queen’s Park team from Scotland A...

BY Vince Cooper WHEN Billy Meredith made his final appearance he was less than four months short of his 50th birthday. He had won the F.A. Cup with...

BY Vince Cooper THE previous British transfer record holder broke the record twice as Denis Law set new marks when both joining and leaving Torino....

By Vince Cooper England’s Home International Championship match with Scotland at Wembley on 2 April 1955 was memorable for a number of reasons. It...

By Vince Cooper There are many tales of sporting polymaths (a person skilled in many subjects) who graced the football pitch. The likes of C.B. Fry,...

BY Vince Cooper IT is hard to imagine these days but there was a time when Scottish football wasn’t dominated by Celtic or even by the big two from...

By Vince Cooper Since it’s inception in 1872 the Football Association initially decided to keep final of the FA Cup in the south. Kennington Oval...

By Vince Cooper Many great players can look back and wonder how their career might have panned out were it not for the two great conflicts of the...

By Vince Cooper The 1947 FA Cup final saw Charlton Athletic return to Wembley just a year after the heartbreak of an extra-time defeat to Derby...

BY Vince Cooper Prior to the 2nd World War, football fans in Stirling were served by the Kings Park club who played their home games at Forthbank...

When Chelsea were first admitted into the Football League the marquee signing was, of course, the £50 purchase of Willie Foulke from Sheffield...