THE PRINCE OF GOALKEEPERS
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...
A LABOUR OF LOVE
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...
NOBBY
THE Chelsea team of the late 1960s and early 1970s was full of great – and big – characters. Peter Osgood bestrode the Kings Road as...
THE PIONEER – PART THREE
THE PIONEER. THE LAURIE CUNNINGHAM STORY. PART THREE BY Vince Cooper AFTER the disasters, both personal and professional, of the 1981-82 season,...
THE PIONEER – PART TWO
THE PIONEER. THE LAURIE CUNNINGHAM STORY. PART TWO BY Vince Cooper BY 1979 Laurie Cunningham’s sparkling form at West Bromwich Albion had played a...
THE PIONEER – PART ONE
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...
A BORN CAPTAIN. THE EDDIE HAPGOOD STORY
A BORN CAPTAIN By Vince Cooper ARSENAL have been blessed with a number of great captains through the years. One of the first, and still regarded a...
THE ANGLO-ITALIAN CUPS
BY Vince Cooper THERE have been a number of different Anglo-Italian Cup competitions including, a little confusingly, two at the same time for a...
OLD SCHOOL ANDY
OLD SCHOOL ANDY; THE ANDY LOCHHEAD STORY BY Vince Cooper It is a well-worn cliche but has to be said. If you needed a photograph to illustrate the...
A MAN OF MANY CLUBS
THIRTY years ago football lost one of it’s finest ‘journeymen’ when Keighley-born Trevor Hockey passed away suddenly from a heart attack at the age...
THE STORY OF THE SWANS – Part One
By Vince Cooper SWANSEA Town Football Club we’re initially formed in 1906 and, without a permanent ground, played matches at various locations...
FA CUP 1963-64.
HAMMERS WIN BATTLE OF THE YOUNG UNS BY Vince Cooper WHILST it was two of the country’s most durable Cup battlers who took to the field at Wembley on...
THE BEES. THE HISTORY OF BRENTFORD – Part One
THE BEES The History of Brentford F.C. By Vince Cooper Part One 1889-1914 AFTER 74 years out of the top flight, Brentford made it back to the big...
FROM FOSSILS TO FOXES
THE HISTORY OF LEICESTER CITY BY Vince Cooper PART ONE 1884-1939 Leicester City weren’t always Leicester City. They started life as Leicester Fosse...
FROM THE RAMBLERS TO THE BRITANNIA
FROM THE RAMBLERS TO THE BRITANNIA BY Vince Cooper HAVING first opened for business in 1878, The Victoria Ground lasted as the home of Stoke City...
THE FIRST SKIPPER
THE FIRST SKIPPER BY Vince Cooper ON Saturday 5 March 1870 England met Scotland in an unofficial international at Kennington Oval. The game had...