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...
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...