by Vince Cooper | Mar 27, 2024 | The Big Feature
McCRAE’S BATTALION By Vince Cooper Come pack up your footballs and scarves of maroon Leave all your sweethearts in Auld Reekie toon Fall in wi’ the...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 25, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE JOHN CHARLES STORY BY Vince Cooper THE question: ‘Who was the greatest footballer of all time?’ is pretty much impossible to answer. As you...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 23, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE JACK COCK STORY By Vince Cooper There was a time when one of the country’s leading centre-forwards was just as big a star treading the music...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 21, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE HISTORY OF SOUTHAMPTON F. C. BY Vince Cooper One of the quirkier and more memorable football grounds, The Dell was home to Southampton for over...
by ReadTheLeague | Mar 20, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. Part Three. From the Southern League to the Football League BY Vince Cooper WIMBLEDON made their debut in the...
by ReadTheLeague | Mar 19, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. Part Two. From the War to Wembley By Vince Cooper The return of football after the 2nd World War was gradual and many...
by ReadTheLeague | Mar 19, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. PART ONE. FROM WIMBLEDON COMMON TO PLOUGH LANE Above: Wimbledon Greyhound and Speedway Stadium with Plough Lane at...
by ReadTheLeague | Mar 17, 2024 | The Big Feature
‘Saturday Afternoon’ by Fred Yates 1953. To see more of the artist’s work visit https://fredyates.wordpress.com Brighton & Hove Albion were...
by ReadTheLeague | Mar 16, 2024 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper AFTER back-to-back Southern League title wins in the late 1960s Cambridge United applied once again for election to the Football...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 15, 2024 | The Big Feature
From Inter-Cities to Europa League The story of The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup BY Vince Cooper Part One. 1955 to 1962 The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ran...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 14, 2024 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper Part one of our article saw the growth of the club as they changed from Rovers to Athletic to just plain Millwall. It also saw them...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 13, 2024 | The Big Feature
THE DEN – AND MILLWALL’S OTHER EARLY HOMES In 1885, tinsmiths at JT Morton’s factory on London’s Isle of Dogs decided to form a football team....
by ReadTheLeague | Mar 13, 2024 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper It’s very rare for a player to be chosen as ‘the best ever’ by two different teams. Charlie Hurley was that man. Big in both size...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 12, 2024 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper NOT only were Alec and David Herd part of that rare breed of a father and son who both won the FA Cup. They had their biggest...
by ReadTheLeague | Mar 9, 2024 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper Every FA Cup provides a few great stories. Fine individual performances, famous giant-killings, the arrival onto the scene of new...
by Vince Cooper | Mar 6, 2024 | The Big Feature
George Hunt – The Chesterfield Tough BY Vince Cooper IN the days before the Smithies, Mooreos and Parksys footballers often had nicknames that...