THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE QUIGLEY Johnny Morris’s British record would last almost until the end of 1949. Then in December...

BY Vince Cooper WHEN Wolverhampton Wanderers took on the Hungarian team Kispest Honved at Molineux in 1954, the game was billed (mostly in the...

3PM ON SATURDAY – WHY? The 19th century Factories Act included a Law that factory work should stop a 2pm on Saturdays. This encouraged...

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....

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 JOHNNY MORRIS who was described as a ‘quick clever robust little inside-right’ was...

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 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 League football resumed after the 2nd World War in 1946-47 but clubs would wait a year...

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...

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...

Kenneth Reginald Gunnery Hunt was born in Oxford in 1884. His grandfather was a missionary working among the Native American tribes in the United...