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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...

IF ONLY. THE TOMMY LAWTON STORY BY Vince Cooper The history of football is littered with ‘if onlys’. ‘What if the Manchester United side hadn’t been...

BY Vince Cooper ‘PETER Osgood and Charlie Cooke have more football in their little fingers than I have in my whole body!’ So said David Webb during...

ARSENAL 4 MANCHESTER UNITED 5 BY Vince Cooper ON February 1 1958, Manchester United travelled to North London to take on Arsenal in a First Division...

THE NOBBY STILES STORY BY Vince Cooper TO win a World Cup – so they say – you need a minimum of four world-class players. In 1966...