By Vince Cooper Since it’s inception in 1872 the Football Association initially decided to keep final of the FA Cup in the south. Kennington Oval...

By Vince Cooper Many great players can look back and wonder how their career might have panned out were it not for the two great conflicts of the...

By Vince Cooper The 1947 FA Cup final saw Charlton Athletic return to Wembley just a year after the heartbreak of an extra-time defeat to Derby...

BY Vince Cooper Prior to the 2nd World War, football fans in Stirling were served by the Kings Park club who played their home games at Forthbank...

When Chelsea were first admitted into the Football League the marquee signing was, of course, the £50 purchase of Willie Foulke from Sheffield...

One of the first great footballers never wore boots when playing, preferring to ply his trade in his daily footwear. When league football started in...

There was a time when one of the country’s leading centre-forwards was just as big a star treading the music hall boards and also turned his hand to...

Liquidator by Mark Worrall With the large number of football books now on the market it is increasingly difficult to find one that looks at the game...

I am proud and pleased to announce the publication of my first book, Blue Army. The book covers the history of Chelsea as told through the stories...

BY Vince Cooper THE next person to break the British transfer record went, like his three immediate predecessors, to Italy. Then he broke it again,...

BY Vince Cooper Only Sir Alex Ferguson has won more English league titles than George Ramsay. Only Arsene Wenger has won more FA Cups than George...

BY Vince Cooper AFTER first Eddie Firmani and then John Charles had set the trend for transfer record-breakers by moving to Italy there was a third...