by Vince Cooper | Nov 15, 2017 | The Big Feature
Sporting quiz games on TV have for many years been dominated by three major shows. On the BBC, A Question Of Sport has been going strong for an...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 12, 2017 | The Big Feature
Come pack up your footballs and scarves of maroon Leave all your sweethearts in Auld Reekie toon Fall in wi’ the lads for they’re off and away To...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 9, 2017 | The Big Feature
IS it Upton Park or is it the Boleyn Ground? We’ll leave that question for part two. First we’ll start way back when West Ham United were Thames...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 9, 2017 | The Big Feature
In 1970-71 the Football Leagues of England, Scotland and Ireland decided to start a competition for those teams that had just missed out on European...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 4, 2017 | The Big Feature
Before Neymar, before Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, before Pele, Jairzinho. Rivellino and Carlos Alberto. Even before Vava and Garrincha, there...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 3, 2017 | The Big Feature
THE sterling efforts of Northern Ireland and Wales at the 2016 European Championships gave some hope for the future of national football across the...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 2, 2017 | The Big Feature
England – Ready to fly The home nations finally decided to join World football’s showpiece in 1950. And it didn’t go well with Scotland...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 2, 2017 | The Big Feature
THERE was a time when it wasn’t so rare to find people able to compete successfully at the highest level in both Cricket and Football. From Denis...
by Vince Cooper | Nov 1, 2017 | The Big Feature
THE cover of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album gave lots of fun for those looking to spot which famous personalities had...
by Vince Cooper | Oct 29, 2017 | The Big Feature
Jeff Hall – A tragic loss with a positive effect Jeff Hall was born in Lincolnshire but spent his formative years in Keighley. Yorkshire where...
by Vince Cooper | Oct 28, 2017 | The Big Feature
THROUGHOUT his playing career – and then when he went into management – Dave Mackay was a winner. Born in Edinburgh in 1934, Mackay won...
by Vince Cooper | Oct 24, 2017 | The Big Feature
IN late 1945, with World War Two moving into history, the FA decided to further build relations with their Russian allies by inviting the famed...
by Vince Cooper | Oct 22, 2017 | The Big Feature
There is no doubt that the Munich air disaster of 1958 will forever be remembered as ‘The Day A Team Died’ (to borrow the title of Frank Taylor’s...
by Vince Cooper | Oct 20, 2017 | The Big Feature
Having been opened in 1878, The Victoria Ground, and Stoke City suffered some major blows, but survived them for 119 years before finally closing...
by Vince Cooper | Oct 20, 2017 | The Big Feature
To have one brother in the family who scores over 200 league goals – despite missing 6 prime-career seasons due to the outbreak of war –...
by Vince Cooper | Oct 15, 2017 | The Big Feature
AYRESOME Park served as home for Middlesbrough for 92 years before finally closing its doors in 1995 when the club moved to the Riverside Stadium....