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...
OGDEN’S CIGARETTE CARDS 1920S
IN THE 1920S OGDEN’S CIGARETTES ISSUED A SET OF FOOTBALL CLUB NICKNAME CARDS. HERE THEY...
THE BLACK PANTHER
BY Vince Cooper JUST how important was Eusebio to world football? He was the first great African import to the European game and was a real pioneer,...
FROM HISTORY TO TRAGEDY
HUGHIE FERGUSON Hughie Ferguson was a goalscoring hero in Scotland. In 1927 He became one in Wales when he scored the goal that won the F.A Cup for...
GREAT SCOTT
BY Vince Cooper JUST after the start of the 20th century, goalkeeper Billy Scott joined Everton from Irish team Linfield. He quickly became a...
GONE GROUNDS – MILLMOOR
BY Vince Cooper To some degree, calling Millmoor a ‘Gone Ground’ is incorrect as youth football is still occasionally played on the pitch to this...
GONE GROUNDS – NINIAN PARK PART ONE
By Vince Cooper CARDIFF City Football Club were founded in 1899 and were originally called Riverside A.F.C. Walter Bartley Wilson had put up a...
GONE GROUNDS – PLOUGH LANE (PART TWO)
By Vince Cooper The return of football after the 2nd World War was gradual and many stadia required extensive work after either being struck during...
THE BAKER BROTHERS
By Vince Cooper Gerry and Joe Baker were sons of a sailor. Which goes some way towards explaining their convoluted international history. The...
THE TWO RONS
WALES have a fine history of producing top-class strikers with John Charles ‘The Gentle Giant’ going down as perhaps the greatest. As Charles’s...