GONE GROUNDS – THE NEST
Norwich City Football Club Ground, (1908-1935) Sources I have managed to uncover a variety of sources, some of which are primary, such as the...
GONE GROUNDS – BROOMFIELD PARK
AIRDRIEONIANS began life as Excelsior Football Club in 1878 spending three years with that name before changing to identify themselves closer with...
A BORN CAPTAIN. THE EDDIE HAPGOOD STORY
EDRIS Hapgood was born in Bristol in 1908, the ninth of ten children. His first job after leaving school was as a milkman – working for his...
THE OTHER SHANKLY MANAGER
THE exploits of the great Bill Shankly need little repeating. An outstanding player with Preston North End and Scotland, ‘Shanks’ really found his...
THE GREAT HORATIO
MANY of the stars of football during the middle of the 20th century came from a footballing background at a time when ‘following in father’s...
THE BATTLE OF HIGHBURY
AFTER resigning from FIFA in 1919 in protest at Germany, Austria and Hungary being allowed to join, the Home Nations steadfastly refused to take...
THE DESTROYING ANGEL
ONE look at scoring records in the bygone age shows that it was clearly easier to score ‘back in the day’. Whether due to a more lenient approach...
GONE GROUNDS – THE DEN – AND MILLWALL’S OTHER EARLY HOMES (PART ONE)
THE DEN – AND MILLWALL’S OTHER EARLY HOMES In 1885, tinsmiths at JT Morton’s factory decided to form a football team. Scotsman John Thomas...
GONE GROUNDS – ANLABY ROAD & BOOTHFERRY PARK
ATTEMPTS were made to start a football club in Hull for some time before Hull City were formed in 1904. The main delays were caused by the city’s...
GONE GROUNDS – CATHKIN AND NEW CATHKIN PARK
THE ORIGINAL The original Cathkin Park was opened in 1872 when members of the Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (the club’s original name) started...
THE FOOTBALL MONTHLY MAN
MANY associate the name Charles Buchan with the monthly football magazine which ran from the early 1950s until 1974, and was accompanied by a yearly...
A MAN OF MANY CLUBS
THIRTY years ago football lost one of it’s finest ‘journeymen’ when Keighley-born Trevor Hockey passed away suddenly from a heart attack at the age...
GONE GROUNDS – SHAWFIELD
CLYDE FC, the ‘Bully Wee’ were founded in 1877 and started play at Barrowfield Park, on the banks of the River Clyde. The club had formerly gone...
NOBBY
THE Chelsea team of the late 1960s and early 1970s was full of great – and big – characters. Peter Osgood bestrode the Kings Road as...
FROM MATTHEWS TO BEST
THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE FWA FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR IN September 1947 Charles Buchan and three other journalists were returning by boat having...
GONE GROUNDS – EASTVILLE
BRISTOL Rovers Football Club was formed in 1883 at a meeting organised by Bill Somerton, a local school teacher, in a restaurant called The...