Lev Yashin never wanted to be a goalkeeper. In fact he never even wanted to be a footballer. But the young man who first tried boxing and then went...

LOCAL HERO The Jimmy Dimmock story BY Vince Cooper WHILST it is nice when your club makes those big-name, big-money signings there are few better...

REDEMPTION – TEN YEARS LATER BY Vince Cooper THE 1965-66 season represented eight years since the disaster of Munich, when Manchester United...

The Cat BY Vince Cooper This is a chapter from the book ‘Blue Army’ The Worthing Catholic team which competed in the Sussex County League in the...

Franny Francis Lee 1944-2023 By Jason Shela Francis Henry ‘Franny’ Lee CBE who sadly passed away last month was one of the finest attacking...

BY Vince Cooper Bobby Charlton had a glittering football career although his own self-effacing attitude and the talents of those around him, often...

YOU NEED HANDS – THE PAT JENNINGS STORY (Part One) BY Vince Cooper FEW players earn the accolades and affection of two sets of fans so much...

BY Vince Cooper FOOTBALLERS from the Channel Islands making it to the top of the game have been few and far between. Amazingly,  Guernsey’s Matt Le...

JOHN CAMERON; A GREAT SPUR BY Vince Cooper Given that the history of Spurs is sprinkled with great Scots (think Dave Mackay, Alan Gilzean, John...

BY Vince Cooper AFTER resigning from FIFA in 1919 in protest at Germany, Austria and Hungary being allowed to join, the Home Nations steadfastly...

BY Vince Cooper ‘They never die who live in the hearts they leave behind’ The inscription on John Thomson’s gravestone. Whilst a sunny May 25th 1967...

By Vince Cooper THIS is the heartbreaking and inspirational story of Jean-Pierre and Bernadette Adams. It is a story of love and devotion in the...