DUNCAN – IN OTHER PEOPLE’S WORDS
MANY words have been written, and by people with far more knowledge about him than us – about the late, great Duncan Edwards. So rather than...
Fond Memories – Muddy Pitches
During interactions with our many wonderful followers on Twitter (what do you mean you don’t follow @theleaguemag ? You’re missing...
GONE GROUNDS: THE BOLEYN, UPTON PARK – PART 2
WE left part one of our Upton Park story with the tragic passing of Syd King, a man who had been associated with the club since the Thames Ironworks...
MAN OF STEEL – THE DEREK DOOLEY STORY
SHEFFIELD-BORN Derek Dooley looked all set to go to the very top on the pitch. Tragedy struck but he still forged a career that sees him remembered...
ROUTE ONE AND ALL THAT – THE QUIZ BALL STORY
Sporting quiz games on TV have for many years been dominated by three major shows. On the BBC, A Question Of Sport has been going strong for an...
THE PASSIONATE PURITAN – THE STAN CULLIS STORY
THE STAN CULLIS STORY BY Vince Cooper LITTLE could Stan Cullis or Joe Mercer know when they attended Ellesmere Port’s Cambridge Road school together...
GONE GROUNDS – UPTON PARK (PART ONE)
IS it Upton Park or is it the Boleyn Ground? We’ll leave that question for part three. First we’ll start way back when West Ham United were Thames...
THE 1938 WORLD CUP. LEÔNIDAS AND BRAZIL’S BIGGEST FOLLY
Before Neymar, before Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho, before Pele, Jairzinho. Rivellino and Carlos Alberto. Even before Vava and Garrincha, there...
THEY ALL MADE IT – THE 1958 WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS
THE sterling efforts of Northern Ireland and Wales at the 2016 European Championships gave some hope for the future of national football across the...
HOW ENGLAND (AND SCOTLAND) MESSED UP IN 1950
England – Ready to fly The home nations finally decided to join World football’s showpiece in 1950. And it didn’t go well with Scotland...
ALBERT STUBBINS – THE SERGEANT PEPPER MAN
THE cover of The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album gave lots of fun for those looking to spot which famous personalities had...
WHEN THE RUSSIANS CAME
IN late 1945, with World War Two moving into history, the FA decided to further build relations with their Russian allies by inviting the famed...
THE ROWLEY BROTHERS – TWO GUNNERS
To have one brother in the family who scores over 200 league goals – despite missing 6 prime-career seasons due to the outbreak of war –...
GONE GROUNDS – AYRESOME PARK
AYRESOME Park served as home for Middlesbrough for 92 years before finally closing its doors in 1995 when the club moved to the Riverside Stadium....
ENGLAND’S GREATEST SPORTSMAN
Max Woosnam by Vince Cooper Captain of the England football team and of Manchester City, scorer of a century at Lords, winner of Olympic gold and...
THE GREAT CORINTHIANS
Corinthian FC had some of the greatest players, and greatest characters, pass through their ranks on either side of the turn of the 19th century....