A Clown Breaks England Hearts
By David Meier After memorably winning the World Cup in 1966 and putting up a brave show in the 1970 tournament, the qualifying draw for the 1974...
When Skies Are Grey by Mark Worrall
Book Review: When Skies Are Grey by Mark Worrall What can we make of the 2019-2020 season. Unprecedented? Fractured? A Mess? To some degree it was...
KUBALA – THE MAN WHO BUILT BARCELONA
BY Vince Cooper IN 1999, Barcelona’s centenary year, a vote was held to decide the club’s greatest-ever player. Given the exploits since then of...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – MARTIN PETERS
THE WINGLESS WONDER BY Vince Cooper WHEN Sir Alf Ramsey guided England to World Cup success in 1966 he did so by employing a revolutionary system...
FRANK SOO – PIONEER
By Vince Cooper Whilst Viv Anderson is rightly feted as the first black England international his place as the first non-white to wear the national...
BOBBY BUCKLE – THE FATHER OF SPURS
By Vince Cooper White Cottage is where it all started. From this came Tottenham Hotspur FC, the name ‘White Hart Lane’ and the club’s first key man...
THE BIG FREEZE
BY Vince Cooper As football suffers it’s longest enforced shutdown since the 2nd World War and with no end in sight, let’s look back to 1962-63 when...
CLAPHAM – THE FIRST ROVERS
In its early days the FA Cup was an almost exclusively southern affair, with the notable exception of the mighty Queen’s Park team from Scotland A...
THE PRINCE OF WINGERS
BY Vince Cooper WHEN Billy Meredith made his final appearance he was less than four months short of his 50th birthday. He had won the F.A. Cup with...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – ALLAN CLARKE
BY Vince Cooper THE previous British transfer record holder broke the record twice as Denis Law set new marks when both joining and leaving Torino....
ONE-CLUB, TWO-COUNTRY MAN
By Vince Cooper England’s Home International Championship match with Scotland at Wembley on 2 April 1955 was memorable for a number of reasons. It...
RENAISSANCE MAN
By Vince Cooper There are many tales of sporting polymaths (a person skilled in many subjects) who graced the football pitch. The likes of C.B. Fry,...
GAY GORDON
BY Vince Cooper IT is hard to imagine these days but there was a time when Scottish football wasn’t dominated by Celtic or even by the big two from...
FA CUP 1892-93. THE FALLOWFIELD FOLLY
By Vince Cooper Since it’s inception in 1872 the Football Association initially decided to keep final of the FA Cup in the south. Kennington Oval...
HAPPY HARRY
By Vince Cooper Many great players can look back and wonder how their career might have panned out were it not for the two great conflicts of the...
FA CUP 1946-47 ADDICKS GAIN REDEMPTION
By Vince Cooper The 1947 FA Cup final saw Charlton Athletic return to Wembley just a year after the heartbreak of an extra-time defeat to Derby...