BY Vince Cooper ATTEMPTS were made to start a football club in Hull for some time before Hull City were formed in 1904. The main delays were caused...

THE LUIGI RIVA STORY BY Vince Cooper RARELY has one man had such a huge effect on one team as Luigi Riva, who passed away recently, had on Cagliari....

THE HUGHIE FERGUSON STORY Hughie Ferguson was a goalscoring hero in Scotland. In 1927 He became one in Wales when he scored the goal that won the...

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...