By Vince Cooper WE’VE all heard the expression that a specific footballer plays or played the game ‘with a smile on his face’. One player this...

THE RAMS. THE HISTORY OF DERBY COUNTY AND THE BASEBALL GROUND BY Vince Cooper DERBY County Football Club started playing in 1884 The football team,...

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

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

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...

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...

By Vince Cooper Gerry and Joe Baker were sons of a sailor. Which goes some way towards explaining their convoluted international history. The...

BY Vince Cooper WALES have a fine history of producing top-class strikers with John Charles ‘The Gentle Giant’ going down as perhaps the greatest....

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...

‘HARRY, HARRY, BREAK US A LEG’ Every now and then a player comes along who seems to personify a club. This was certainly true of Millwall defender...

By Vince Cooper At the arrival of the 19th century there were three good-class football teams competing in the Levenmouth area in Fife on the East...

‘WEE’ Hughie Gallacher was idolised by fans everywhere, including those of opposing teams. But, as Vince Cooper writes, his life ended...