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 FERGUSIN 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...
THE WEE BARRA
BY Vince Cooper In Glasgow-speak a ‘Wee Barra’ is usually used to refer to a small person who people like, Bobby Collins might not have been liked...
KEITH WELLER – A CLASS ACT
Keith Weller was one of those players during the late 1960s and mostly the 1970s who fans from every club admired. And yet there is a feeling that...
THE BARNSLEY SCOUSER
By Vince Cooper Gordon West was born in Darfield near Barnsley in 1943 and went to the same local school as Mark Jones, the Manchester United...
GONE GROUNDS – PLOUGH LANE (Part One)
GONE GROUNDS – PLOUGH LANE (AND THE WIMBLEDON COMMON DAYS) Above: Wimbledon Greyhound and Speedway Stadium with Plough Lane at the top in 1928...