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...
SIR ROGER
BY Vince Cooper THE World Cup winning team of 1966 are all rightly lauded as greats of the English game. One of the less-heralded members of the...
WILLIAM RALPH – The Dixie Dean story
By Vince Cooper SOMETIMES one feat can take a little away from the overall performance of a player. The 60 league goals Dixie Dean scored in the...
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 – LAST OF THE CORINTHIANS BY Vince Cooper There are other sporting polymaths featured on our website with greats like...
THE WANDERING WINGER
By Vince Cooper WE’VE all heard the expression that a specific footballer plays or played the game ‘with a smile on his face’. One player this...
GREAT SCOTT
BY Vince Cooper JUST after the start of the 20th century, goalkeeper Billy Scott joined Everton from Irish team Linfield. He quickly became a...
THE BAKER BROTHERS
By Vince Cooper Gerry and Joe Baker were sons of a sailor. Which goes some way towards explaining their convoluted international history. The...
Lev Yashin. The Shining Light
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...