THE LEAGUE MAGAZINE Welcome to the second issue of THE League Magazine. We hope you enjoyed issue one and this time around we have (sadly) more...

IT’S the middle of summer so live football – aside from the Women’s Euros – is at a premium. Whilst waiting for the new campaign to...

FOR BETTER OR WORSE LIFE, LOVE AND SUPPORTING CHELSEA IN THE 1990s By Jason Gibbins Published by Gate17 Books Reviewed by Dave Cooper Chelsea fans...

THE LEAGUE MONTHLY February 2022 WELCOME to issue one of THE LEAGUE MONTHLY, your regular round-up of news and articles from the world of...

BY Vince Cooper HE was left out of the 1966 World Cup final line-up when quite possibly still at his peak but there is no doubt that, for a good...

BY Vince Cooper Was there anything C. B. Fry couldn’t do? The man writer Geoffrey Green described as; “A mortal who came from Olympus”, played...

Peel Park and the History of Accrington Stanley. When Accrington F.C. were operating as one of the Football League’s original 12 clubs another team...

The Owd Reds – The Brief History of Accrington F.C. The list of the original twelve members of the Football League contains 11 teams many of...

1920-21 FA CUP BY Vince Cooper The 1921 FA Cup final was held at Stamford Bridge the second year that the West London ground had the honour of...

BY Vince Cooper In recent times the Coronavirus pandemic has seen us go through a period of no football at all followed by a significantly longer...

BY Vince Cooper An end-of-season friendly in 1964 saw England, with Bobby Moore, skippering the team for the first time at Wembley, beat Uruguay 2-1...

BY Vince Cooper THE World Cup winning team of 1966 are all rightly lauded as greats of the English game. One of the less-heralded members of the...