1966. WHEN FOOTBALL DANCED TO A MERSEY BEAT
By Vince Cooper In 1966 football belonged to England. And English football belonged to Merseyside. The country hosted the World Cup for the first...
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 1930 World Cup. The Story of the One-Armed Man
BY Vince Cooper A look back to the first-ever World Cup Finals 88 years ago and a final that featured bitter rivals – and a one-armed man....
GONE GROUNDS – THE NEST
Norwich City Football Club Ground, (1908-1935) Sources I have managed to uncover a variety of sources, some of which are primary, such as the...
GONE GROUNDS – BROOMFIELD PARK
AIRDRIEONIANS began life as Excelsior Football Club in 1878 spending three years with that name before changing to identify themselves closer with...
THE OTHER SHANKLY MANAGER
By Vince Cooper THE exploits of the great Bill Shankly need little repeating. An outstanding player with Preston North End and Scotland, ‘Shanks’...
GONE GROUNDS – CATHKIN AND NEW CATHKIN PARK
THE ORIGINAL The original Cathkin Park was opened in 1872 when members of the Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers (the club’s original name) started...
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...
GONE GROUNDS – SHAWFIELD
CLYDE FC, the ‘Bully Wee’ were founded in 1877 and started play at Barrowfield Park, on the banks of the River Clyde. The club had formerly gone...
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...
THE FOURTH MAN
ONLY four managers in history have won the league title with two separate clubs. Three of them are Herbert Chapman, Brian Clough and Kenny Dalglish....
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...