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...

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...

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...

As an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club, it’s hardly surprising that Derby County began their football existence playing at the County...

IN THE 1920S OGDEN’S CIGARETTES ISSUED A SET OF FOOTBALL CLUB NICKNAME CARDS. HERE THEY...

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,...

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...

BY Vince Cooper JUST after the start of the 20th century, goalkeeper Billy Scott joined Everton from Irish team Linfield. He quickly became a...