BOBBY BUCKLE AND THE EARLY YEARS OF TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
BOBBY BUCKLE AND THE EARLY YEARS OF TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR BY Vince Cooper WHITE Cottage is where it all started. From this came Hotspur FC (the prefix...
THE COLOSSUS
WILLIAM ‘FATTY’ FOULKE(S) By VINCE COOPER IT has always been said that Goalkeepers are the real characters of football. Stories of eccentricity...
DID YOU KNOW?
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN Dailly Junior School team in Ayrshire featured two future Scottish internationals. Eventual Arsenal and Manchester United...
THE DOOG – Part One
THE DOOG – The Derek Dougan story. Part One BY Vince Cooper NORTHERN Irish football has always seemed to punch above its weight. That a...
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...
JIMMY LOGAN – A TRAGIC TALE
The Strange Football Life – And Tragic Death – Of A Cup Final Hero BY Vince Cooper IN 1894 2nd Division Notts County caused a shock by...
KEITH WELLER – A CLASS ACT
BY Vince Cooper Keith Weller is remembered by many as ‘the footballer who wore tights’ . But beneath the undergarments there was a top-class...
The Day it Rained Goals
Boxing Day 1963. The Day it Rained Goals We all like a ‘goal-fest’. Lets face it, what’s not to love about a thrilling 3-3 draw? Even if it...
DID YOU KNOW 12
SAM’S FOGGY DAY ON Christmas Day 1937, Chelsea met Charlton Athletic at Stamford Bridge. After 61 minutes the teams were locked at 1-1 when it...
DID YOU KNOW 11
“I find it impossible to compare him, in his teens, with any one footballer I’ve seen. He has everything – a first-class football brain,...
DID YOU KNOW 10
CHAMPIONS ALL Gordon Wallace and Bobby Graham from Liverpool’s 1964 Championship winning team pose with the trophy alongside Joe Hewitt a...
DID YOU KNOW 9
“It is a pity that Foulke cannot curb the habit of pulling down the crossbar which on Saturday ended in his breaking it in two” Sheffield Daily...
DID YOU KNOW 8
“See how fast their centre forward can limp” The instructions given to debut-making Jack Charlton by Leeds United manager Raich Carter before the...
DID YOU KNOW #7
£8,000 FOR 11 MINUTES! In 1963, Northampton Town, then of the 3rd Division shelled out a hefty £8,000 for prolific Bert Llewelyn of Port Vale. Town...
DID YOU KNOW 6
DENIS DENIED (Above) Manchester City skipper Ken Barnes measures Denis Law for his new shirt Denis Law was always a big FA Cup scorer, but he could...
Did You Know. 5
Spotless Dick Dick Pym was the Bolton Wanderers goalkeeper who had the enviable record of appearing in three FA Cup Finals at Wembley – and...