The Sharpest Shooter
BY Vince Cooper HE was left out of the 1966 World Cup final line-up when quite possibly still at his peak but there is no doubt that, for a good...
The Greatest All-Rounder
BY Vince Cooper Was there anything C. B. Fry couldn’t do? The man writer Geoffrey Green described as; “A mortal who came from Olympus”, played...
Gone Grounds: Peel Park. Part One
Peel Park and the History of Accrington Stanley. When Accrington F.C. were operating as one of the Football League’s original 12 clubs another team...
The Owd Reds
The Owd Reds – The Brief History of Accrington F.C. The list of the original twelve members of the Football League contains 11 teams many of...
Local Boy Dimmock Wins It For Spurs
1920-21 FA CUP BY Vince Cooper The 1921 FA Cup final was held at Stamford Bridge the second year that the West London ground had the honour of...
The Three-Match Season
BY Vince Cooper In recent times the Coronavirus pandemic has seen us go through a period of no football at all followed by a significantly longer...
George Cohen
BY Vince Cooper An end-of-season friendly in 1964 saw England, with Bobby Moore, skippering the team for the first time at Wembley, beat Uruguay 2-1...
Sir Roger
BY Vince Cooper THE World Cup winning team of 1966 are all rightly lauded as greats of the English game. One of the less-heralded members of the...
FA CUP 1969-70. BRUTAL
The 1969-70 F.A Cup saw Leeds United and Chelsea take the final to a second match, the first time the season’s showpiece had not been settled at the...
THE FLYING HAMMER
THE FLYING HAMMER BY Vince Cooper IN 1925 the laws of football changed. And so, soon after, did they way teams played. Prior to this a player was...
NAT THE LION
BY Vince Cooper ALTHOUGH he earned a great deal of his reputation, and indeed his nickname, for one performance, Nat Lofthouse, ‘The Lion of Vienna’...
GONE GROUNDS – PLOUGH LANE PART 3
PLOUGH LANE – PART THREE WIMBLEDON made their debut in the Southern League for the 1964-65 season and it would take them twelve years to get...
FA CUP 1967-68. ASTLE’S DAY
1967-68 F.A. Cup. Astle‘s Day The 1967-68 season in English football was mostly dominated by the Manchester clubs. City took the title by two points...
FA CUP 1961-62. SPURS DOUBLE UP IN ‘CHESSBOARD FINAL’
By Vince Cooper In the 1960-61 season Tottenham Hotspur had completed the fabled League and F.A. Cup double, the first team to manage the feat in...
FA CUP 1932-33. THE NUMBERS GAME
By Vince Cooper Every FA Cup provides a few great stories. Fine individual performances, famous giant-killings, the arrival onto the scene of new...
William Ralph – The Dixie Dean story
By Vince Cooper SOMETIMES one feat can take a little away from the overall performance of a great player. The 60 league goals Dixie Dean scored in...