ROUTE ONE AND ALL THAT – THE QUIZ BALL STORY
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...
McCRAE’S BATTALION
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...
GONE GROUNDS – UPTON PARK (PART ONE)
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...
THE TEXACO / ANGLO-SCOTTISH CUP
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...
THE 1938 WORLD CUP. LEÔNIDAS AND BRAZIL’S BIGGEST FOLLY
Before Neymar, before Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, before Pele, Jairzinho. Rivellino and Carlos Alberto. Even before Vava and Garrincha, there...
THEY ALL MADE IT – THE 1958 WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
THE sterling efforts of Northern Ireland and Wales at the 2016 European Championships gave some hope for the future of national football across the...
HOW ENGLAND (AND SCOTLAND) MESSED UP IN 1950
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...
FOOTBALL OR CRICKET? BOTH
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...
ALBERT STUBBINS – THE SERGEANT PEPPER MAN
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...
THE JEFF HALL STORY
Jeff Hall – A tragic loss with a positive effect Jeff Hall was born in Lincolnshire but spent his formative years in Keighley. Yorkshire where...
DAVE MACKAY – A WINNER WITH A BIG HEART
THROUGHOUT his playing career – and then when he went into management – Dave Mackay was a winner. Born in Edinburgh in 1934, Mackay won...
WHEN THE RUSSIANS CAME
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...
‘BIG SWIFTY’
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...
GONE GROUNDS – THE VICTORIA GROUND.
Having been opened in 1878, The Victoria Ground, and Stoke City suffered some major blows, but survived them for 119 years before finally closing...
THE ROWLEY BROTHERS – TWO GUNNERS
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 –...
GONE GROUNDS – AYRESOME PARK
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....