THE PIONEER
THE PIONEER: THE LAURIE CUNNINGHAM STORY. PART 1 BY Vince Cooper IN 1955 19-year-old Mavis Trout left her home in Kingston, Jamaica, leaving her...
THE DUKE
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...
Blue Army – John Bumstead
BLUE ARMY BY Vince Cooper John Bumstead Chelsea have had their share of ‘unsung heroes’ over the years. Peter Houseman, a hugely influential member...
THE WAR CUPS
BY Vince Cooper IT is often written that football stopped during World War Two and while it’s true that ‘official matches’ like the Football League...
FA CUP 1922-23. SUCCESS FOR WANDERERS AND THE WHITE HORSE
By Vince Cooper ON a bleak January day in 1922 a select group convened near the top of a hill in Middlesex. After a few preliminaries H.R.H. The...
RIDE TO HELL. Prisoner Of A Dubious Peace. By Paul Ride
Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman – and avid Chelsea fan – working in Kuwait as a catering manager was arrested in Iraq for...
KEITH WELLER – A CLASS ACT
BY Vince Cooper Keith Weller is remembered by many as ‘the footballer who wore tights’ . But beneath the undergarments there was a top-class...
The Sharpest Shooter
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 doubt that, for a good...
The Greatest All-Rounder
BY Vince Cooper Was there anything C. B. Fry couldn’t do? The man writer Geoffrey Green described as; “A mortal who came from Olympus”, played...
Gone Grounds: Peel Park. Part One
Peel Park and the History of Accrington Stanley. When Accrington F.C. were operating as one of the Football League’s original 12 clubs another team...
BOBBY BUCKLE – THE FOUNDING FATHER OF SPURS
BY Vince Cooper WHITE Cottage is where it all started. From this came Tottenham Hotspur FC, the name ‘White Hart Lane’ and the club’s first key man...
THE LAW MAN
BY Vince Cooper DENIS Law was one of those players that it was hard to dislike, even if he wasn’t on your team. He played the game with gusto and...
GONE GROUNDS – THE DELL
One of the quirkier and more memorable football grounds, The Dell was home to Southampton for over 100 years before they moved to St Mary’s...
TOP HATTER
BY Vince Cooper LUTON Town have had their glory days. Few will forget the sight of David Pleat running across the pitch, coat flapping after the...
BENJAMIN HOWARD BAKER – LAST OF THE CORINTHIANS
BENJAMIN HOWARD BAKER We’ve already featured one of the great sporting polymaths in our look back at past footballing greats with the study of Max...
THE WANDERING WINGER
By Vince Cooper WE’VE all heard the expression that a specific player plays football ‘with a smile on his face’. One player this seemed particularly...