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...
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...