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By Vince Cooper Every FA Cup provides a few great stories. Fine individual performances, famous giant-killings, the arrival onto the scene of new...

George Hunt – The Chesterfield Tough BY Vince Cooper IN the days before the Smithies, Mooreos and Parksys footballers often had nicknames that...

THE JIMMY GREAVES STORY 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...

Jeff Hall – A tragic loss with a positive effect BY Vince Cooper Jeff Hall was an England international footballer and, in the eyes of many,...

BY Vince Cooper In 1968 England manager Sir Alf Ramsey claimed that Martin Peters was ‘Ten years ahead of his time’. Although the comment confused...

In 1970-71 the Football Leagues of England, Scotland and Ireland decided to start a competition for those clubs that had just missed out on European...

BENJAMIN HOWARD BAKER – LAST OF THE CORINTHIANS BY Vince Cooper There are other sporting polymaths featured on our website with ‘Corinthian’...

BY Vince Cooper If you look up the word ‘Corinthian’ in a dictionary you’ll find two definitions. One relates to natives of the ancient region of...

BY Vince Cooper CONTESTED between 1970 and 1973, the Watney Cup (full title Watney Mann Invitation Cup) is fondly remembered as a contest where...

There was a time when the FA Cup final warranted at least a four-page pullout in the national papers, and sometimes a whole special edition. The...

THE FRANK SWIFT STORY BY Vince Cooper THERE is no doubt that the Munich air disaster of 1958 will forever be remembered as ‘The Day A Team Died’ (to...