by ReadTheLeague | Dec 20, 2018 | The Big Feature
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JACKIE SEWELL Trevor Ford’s reign as Britain’s most expensive player stood for almost six months. Then,...
by Vince Cooper | Dec 18, 2018 | The Big Feature
One of the quirkier and more memorable football grounds, The Dell was home to Southampton for over 100 years before they moved to St Mary’s...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 11, 2018 | The Big Feature
GONE GROUNDS – DOUGLAS PARK In 1874, James Blacklock, the rector of the Hamilton Academy school in the South Lanarkshire town 12 miles south...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 11, 2018 | The Big Feature
Swansea-born TREVOR FORD was a late starter in professional football due to wartime hostilities. Ford was born in 1922 and as a youngster he had...
by Vince Cooper | Dec 11, 2018 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper LUTON Town have had their glory days. Few will forget the sight of David Pleat running across the pitch, coat flapping after the...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 10, 2018 | The Big Feature
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE QUIGLEY Johnny Morris’s British record would last almost until the end of 1949. Then in December...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 10, 2018 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper WHEN Wolverhampton Wanderers took on the Hungarian team Kispest Honved at Molineux in 1954, the game was billed (mostly in the...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 9, 2018 | The Big Feature
3PM ON SATURDAY – WHY? The 19th century Factories Act included a Law that factory work should stop a 2pm on Saturdays. This encouraged...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 9, 2018 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper READING FC were formed on Christmas Day 1871 at the Bridge Street Rooms with Joseph Edward Sydenham as the club’s driving force....
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 8, 2018 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper DUMBARTON are currently competing in League One in Scotland having recently been relegated from the Championship. But there was a...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 8, 2018 | The Big Feature
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JOHNNY MORRIS JOHNNY MORRIS who was described as a ‘quick clever robust little inside-right’ was...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 6, 2018 | The Big Feature
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – LEN SHACKLETON Notts County’s surprise reign as the biggest spenders in British Football lasted a mere...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 5, 2018 | The Big Feature
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – TOMMY LAWTON If Billy Steel’s move to Derby, and even more so the one to Dundee came as shocks, imagine...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 5, 2018 | The Big Feature
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – BILLY STEEL League football resumed after the 2nd World War in 1946-47 but clubs would wait a year...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 5, 2018 | The Big Feature
BENJAMIN HOWARD BAKER We’ve already featured one of the great sporting polymaths in our look back at past footballing greats with the study of Max...
by ReadTheLeague | Dec 2, 2018 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper (main photo: David Jack – far right – at the 1923 F.A. Cup final) After the First World War had come to an end it didn’t...