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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...
THE WANDERING WINGER
By Vince Cooper WE’VE all heard the expression that a specific footballer plays or played the game ‘with a smile on his face’. One player this...
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...
GREAT SCOTT
BY Vince Cooper JUST after the start of the 20th century, goalkeeper Billy Scott joined Everton from Irish team Linfield. He quickly became a...
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 BAKER BROTHERS
By Vince Cooper Gerry and Joe Baker were sons of a sailor. Which goes some way towards explaining their convoluted international history. The...
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...