GONE GROUNDS – NINIAN PARK PART TWO
SO, we left Cardiff City in part one going in to 1952-53 and having just regained their 1st Division status. Fans celebrate promotion in 1952 The...
GONE GROUNDS – MUIRTON PARK – PART ONE
AS was the case with a number of other clubs, St Johnstone FC came about when members of a cricket club decided they needed something to keep them...
THE MAJOR
BY Vince Cooper OF the many great managers to have graced the beautiful game over the years, there have undoubtedly been a number who have...
RENTON F.C. CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
BY Vince Cooper A team from a small village in West Dumbartonshire became the first World Champions, competed in the first Scottish Cup, won the...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JACKIE SEWELL
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JACKIE SEWELL Trevor Ford’s reign as Britain’s most expensive player stood for almost six months. Then,...
GONE GROUNDS – DOUGLAS PARK – PART ONE
GONE GROUNDS – DOUGLAS PARK In 1874, James Blacklock, the rector of the Hamilton Academy school in the South Lanarkshire town 12 miles south...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – TREVOR FORD
Swansea-born TREVOR FORD was a late starter in professional football due to wartime hostilities. Ford was born in 1922 and as a youngster he had...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE QUIGLEY
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – EDDIE QUIGLEY Johnny Morris’s British record would last almost until the end of 1949. Then in December...
HONVED – THE TEAM LEFT OUT ON THE COLD
BY Vince Cooper WHEN Wolverhampton Wanderers took on the Hungarian team Kispest Honved at Molineux in 1954, the game was billed (mostly in the...
DID YOU KNOW 20
3PM ON SATURDAY – WHY? The 19th century Factories Act included a Law that factory work should stop a 2pm on Saturdays. This encouraged...
GONE GROUNDS – ELM PARK – Part One 1871-1971
BY Vince Cooper READING FC were formed on Christmas Day 1871 at the Bridge Street Rooms with Joseph Edward Sydenham as the club’s driving force....
GONE GROUNDS – BOGHEAD PARK – PART ONE
BY Vince Cooper DUMBARTON recently celebrated 150 years since they first took the field. They are currently competing in the basement division of...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JOHNNY MORRIS
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – JOHNNY MORRIS JOHNNY MORRIS who was described as a ‘quick clever robust little inside-right’ was...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – BILLY STEEL
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – BILLY STEEL League football resumed after the 2nd World War in 1946-47 but clubs would wait a year...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – PART TWO
BY Vince Cooper (main photo: David Jack – far right – at the 1923 F.A. Cup final) After the First World War had come to an end it didn’t...
THE CUP-WINNING PRIEST
Kenneth Reginald Gunnery Hunt was born in Oxford in 1884. His grandfather was a missionary working among the Native American tribes in the United...