GONE GROUNDS – THE BASEBALL GROUND
THE RAMS. THE HISTORY OF DERBY COUNTY AND THE BASEBALL GROUND BY Vince Cooper DERBY County Football Club started playing in 1884 The football team,...
OGDEN’S CIGARETTE CARDS 1920S
IN THE 1920S OGDEN’S CIGARETTES ISSUED A SET OF FOOTBALL CLUB NICKNAME CARDS. HERE THEY...
GONE GROUNDS – MILLMOOR
BY Vince Cooper To some degree, calling Millmoor a ‘Gone Ground’ is incorrect as youth football is still occasionally played on the pitch to this...
GONE GROUNDS – NINIAN PARK PART ONE
By Vince Cooper CARDIFF City Football Club were founded in 1899 and were originally called Riverside A.F.C. Walter Bartley Wilson had put up a...
THE TWO RONS
BY Vince Cooper WALES have a fine history of producing top-class strikers with John Charles ‘The Gentle Giant’ going down as perhaps the greatest....
THE BARNSLEY SCOUSER
By Vince Cooper Gordon West was born in Darfield near Barnsley in 1943 and went to the same local school as Mark Jones, the Manchester United...
DID YOU KNOW 19
‘HARRY, HARRY, BREAK US A LEG’ Every now and then a player comes along who seems to personify a club. This was certainly true of Millwall defender...
Did You Know 18
CLARIFYING THE CONFUSION Our Twitter followers are a knowledgeable bunch. But some do occasionally get a little confused. Here’s some hopefully...
THE FOOTBALL MONTHLY MAN
MANY associate the name Charles Buchan with the monthly football magazine which ran from the early 1950s until 1974, and was accompanied by a yearly...
FROM MATTHEWS TO BEST
THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE FWA FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR IN September 1947 Charles Buchan and three other journalists were returning by boat having...
GONE GROUNDS – EASTVILLE
BRISTOL Rovers Football Club was formed in 1883 at a meeting organised by Bill Somerton, a local school teacher, in a restaurant called The...
TRAINING DAYS 3
Denis and Leslie Compton Bobby Charlton leads England Nat Lofthouse and fans Cyrille Regis shoots A Manchester City race gets serious Crystal Palace...
GONE GROUNDS. UPTON PARK (or THE BOLEYN GROUND – PART THREE
WE left part two of our Boleyn history with Ron Greenwood now in charge at the club, finally breaking the Hammers’ tradition of promoting from...
TRAINING DAYS 2
Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park in 1922 Fun and games ar Stamford Bridge The Footballers Battalion Bobby Gould at Highbury England legends Liam...
DID YOU KNOW 17
What Might Have Been Jimmy Greaves met up with comedian Eric Morecambe at a ‘Goal Diggers’ charity event. Eric asked Jimmy; ‘What would you have...
TRAINING DAYS 1
Derry City – Quick out of the traps Lev Yashin at Ayresome Park in 1966 Tottenham Hotspur boss Bill Nicholson leads the way Millwall stretch...