A GREAT SPUR
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...
A TRUE CORINTHIAN
BY Vince Cooper If you look up thw word ‘Corinthian’ in a dictionary you’ll find two definition. One relates to natives of the ancient region of...
NEW BOOKS – MAY 2023
THE people at Pitch Publishing (www.pitchpublishing.co.uk) continue to put out great books on a wide range of football (and other sporting)...
Six New Books
The people at Pitch Publishing, one of the foremost publishers of sports books, have certainly been busy and here are six of their new titles with,...
New Books – July 2022
IT’S the middle of summer so live football – aside from the Women’s Euros – is at a premium. Whilst waiting for the new campaign to...
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
FOR BETTER OR WORSE LIFE, LOVE AND SUPPORTING CHELSEA IN THE 1990s By Jason Gibbins Published by Gate17 Books Reviewed by Dave Cooper Chelsea fans...
The Owd Reds
The Owd Reds – The Brief History of Accrington F.C. The list of the original twelve members of the Football League contains 11 teams many of...
Local Boy Dimmock Wins It For Spurs
1920-21 FA CUP BY Vince Cooper The 1921 FA Cup final was held at Stamford Bridge the second year that the West London ground had the honour of...
The Three-Match Season
BY Vince Cooper In recent times the Coronavirus pandemic has seen us go through a period of no football at all followed by a significantly longer...
George Cohen
BY Vince Cooper An end-of-season friendly in 1964 saw England, with Bobby Moore, skippering the team for the first time at Wembley, beat Uruguay 2-1...
FA CUP 1969-70. BRUTAL
BRUTAL BY Vince Cooper THE 1969-70 F.A Cup saw Leeds United and Chelsea take the final to a second match, the first time the season’s showpiece had...
THE FLYING HAMMER
THE FLYING HAMMER BY Vince Cooper IN 1925 the laws of football changed. And so, soon after, did they way teams played. Prior to this a player was...
NAT THE LION
BY Vince Cooper ALTHOUGH he earned a great deal of his reputation, and indeed his nickname, for one performance, Nat Lofthouse, ‘The Lion of Vienna’...
GONE GROUNDS – PLOUGH LANE PART 3
PLOUGH LANE – PART THREE WIMBLEDON made their debut in the Southern League for the 1964-65 season and it would take them twelve years to get...
FA CUP 1967-68. ASTLE’S DAY
1967-68 F.A. Cup. Astle‘s Day The 1967-68 season in English football was mostly dominated by the Manchester clubs. City took the title by two points...
FA CUP 1961-62. SPURS DOUBLE UP IN ‘CHESSBOARD FINAL’
By Vince Cooper In the 1960-61 season Tottenham Hotspur had completed the fabled League and F.A. Cup double, the first team to manage the feat in...