TOP HATTER
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...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE QUIGLEY
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE QUIGLEY Johnny Morris’s British record would last almost until the end of 1949. Then in December...
HONVED – THE TEAM LEFT OUT ON THE COLD
BY Vince Cooper WHEN Wolverhampton Wanderers took on the Hungarian team Kispest Honved at Molineux in 1954, the game was billed (mostly in the...
DID YOU KNOW 20
3PM ON SATURDAY – WHY? The 19th century Factories Act included a Law that factory work should stop a 2pm on Saturdays. This encouraged...
GONE GROUNDS – ELM PARK – Part One 1871-1971
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....
GONE GROUNDS – BOGHEAD PARK – PART ONE
BY Vince Cooper DUMBARTON are currently competing in League One in Scotland having recently been relegated from the Championship. But there was a...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JOHNNY MORRIS
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JOHNNY MORRIS JOHNNY MORRIS who was described as a ‘quick clever robust little inside-right’ was...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – LEN SHACKLETON
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – LEN SHACKLETON Notts County’s surprise reign as the biggest spenders in British Football lasted a mere...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – TOMMY LAWTON
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...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – BILLY STEEL
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – BILLY STEEL League football resumed after the 2nd World War in 1946-47 but clubs would wait a year...
BENJAMIN HOWARD BAKER – LAST OF THE CORINTHIANS
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...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – PART TWO
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...
THE CUP-WINNING PRIEST
Kenneth Reginald Gunnery Hunt was born in Oxford in 1884. His grandfather was a missionary working among the Native American tribes in the United...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – PART ONE
BY Vince Cooper (Main photo. Alf Common) The current British transfer record (the biggest amount involving a club from the UK) is jointly held by...
THE WANDERING WINGER
By Vince Cooper WE’VE all heard the expression that a specific player plays football ‘with a smile on his face’. One player this seemed particularly...
GONE GROUNDS – THE BASEBALL GROUND
As an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, it’s hardly surprising that Derby County began their football existence playing at the County...