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...
GONE GROUNDS – ANNFIELD
BY Vince Cooper Prior to the 2nd World War, football fans in Stirling were served by the Kings Park club who played their home games at Forthbank...
The Wizard
When Chelsea were first admitted into the Football League the marquee signing was, of course, the £50 purchase of Willie Foulke from Sheffield...
The Man In Brogues
One of the first great footballers never wore boots when playing, preferring to ply his trade in his daily footwear. When league football started in...
Jack of All Trades
There was a time when one of the country’s leading centre-forwards was just as big a star treading the music hall boards and also turned his hand to...
Liquidator by Mark Worrall
Liquidator by Mark Worrall With the large number of football books now on the market it is increasingly difficult to find one that looks at the game...
Blue Army
I am proud and pleased to announce the publication of my first book, Blue Army. The book covers the history of Chelsea as told through the stories...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – DENIS LAW
BY Vince Cooper THE next person to break the British transfer record went, like his three immediate predecessors, to Italy. Then he broke it again,...
THE FIRST MANAGER
BY Vince Cooper Only Sir Alex Ferguson has won more English league titles than George Ramsay. Only Arsene Wenger has won more FA Cups than George...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – GERRY HITCHENS
BY Vince Cooper AFTER first Eddie Firmani and then John Charles had set the trend for transfer record-breakers by moving to Italy there was a third...
JACK GREENWELL. THE PASS MASTER
BY Vince Cooper BARCELONA have become known as the epitome of the ‘pass and move’ team. The fluidity of their style has become a key component of...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JOHN CHARLES
BY Vince Cooper THE British transfer record set when Eddie Firmani moved from Charlton Athletic to Sampdoria was broken two years later. In fact it...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE FIRMANI
BY Vince Cooper THE British transfer record set when Jackie Sewell moved to Sheffield Wednesday would stand for over four years. When it was finally...
GONE GROUNDS – NINIAN PARK PART TWO
SO, we left Cardiff City in part one going in to 1952-53 and having just regained their 1st Division status. Fans celebrate promotion in 1952 The...
GONE GROUNDS – MUIRTON PARK – PART ONE
AS was the case with a number of other clubs, St Johnstone FC came about when members of a cricket club decided they needed something to keep them...