by Vince Cooper | Apr 16, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE EUSEBIO STORY BY Vince Cooper JUST how important was Eusebio to world football? Well, he was the first great African import to the European game...
by Vince Cooper | Apr 8, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE GEORGE COHEN STORY BY Vince Cooper AN end-of-season friendly in 1964 saw England, with Bobby Moore, skippering the team for the first time at...
by Vince Cooper | Apr 6, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE STEVE BLOOMER STORY BY Vince Cooper A look at scoring records in the bygone age shows that it was clearly easier to score ‘back in the day’....
by Vince Cooper | Apr 2, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE BOBBY COLLINS STORY BY Vince Cooper In Glasgow-speak a ‘Wee Barra’ is a term used to refer to a small person who people like, Bobby Collins...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 30, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE ROGER HUNT STORY BY Vince Cooper THE World Cup winning team of 1966 are all rightly lauded as greats of the English game although some have...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 29, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE HISTORY OF SUNDERLAND F. C. BY Vince Cooper THERE is no doubt that Roker Park, home of Sunderland for just under 100 years, was one of the...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 27, 2024 | The Big Feature
McCRAE’S BATTALION By Vince Cooper Come pack up your footballs and scarves of maroon Leave all your sweethearts in Auld Reekie toon Fall in wi’ the...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 25, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE JOHN CHARLES STORY BY Vince Cooper THE question: ‘Who was the greatest footballer of all time?’ is pretty much impossible to answer. As you...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 23, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE JACK COCK STORY By Vince Cooper There was a time when one of the country’s leading centre-forwards was just as big a star treading the music...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 21, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON F. C. BY Vince Cooper One of the quirkier and more memorable football grounds, The Dell was home to Southampton for over...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 15, 2024 | The Big Feature
From Inter-Cities to Europa League The story of The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup BY Vince Cooper Part One. 1955 to 1962 The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ran...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 14, 2024 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper Part one of our article saw the growth of the club as they changed from Rovers to Athletic to just plain Millwall. It also saw them...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 13, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE DEN – AND MILLWALL’S OTHER EARLY HOMES In 1885, tinsmiths at JT Morton’s factory on London’s Isle of Dogs decided to form a football team....
by Vince Cooper | Mar 12, 2024 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper NOT only were Alec and David Herd part of that rare breed of a father and son who both won the FA Cup. They had their biggest...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 6, 2024 | The Big Feature
George Hunt – The Chesterfield Tough BY Vince Cooper IN the days before the Smithies, Mooreos and Parksys footballers often had nicknames that...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 3, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE JIMMY GREAVES STORY BY Vince Cooper HE was left out of the 1966 World Cup final line-up when quite possibly still at his peak but there is no...