by ReadTheLeague | May 19, 2021 | The Big Feature
1967-68 F.A. Cup. Astle‘s Day The 1967-68 season in English football was mostly dominated by the Manchester clubs. City took the title by two points...
by ReadTheLeague | May 16, 2021 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper In the 1960-61 season Tottenham Hotspur had completed the fabled League and F.A. Cup double, the first team to manage the feat in...
by ReadTheLeague | May 15, 2021 | 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 ReadTheLeague | May 14, 2021 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper SOMETIMES one feat can take a little away from the overall performance of a great player. The 60 league goals Dixie Dean scored in...
by ReadTheLeague | May 11, 2021 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper HERE are a couple of great quiz questions; Q: Name the two clubs involved in the first-ever £5,000 transfer fee. A: West Ham United...
by ReadTheLeague | May 9, 2021 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper WHEN no less an authority than Herbert Chapman says of you: “I shall always think he was the finest footballer I’ve ever seen” you...
by ReadTheLeague | Apr 27, 2021 | The Big Feature
THERE is lot of great product about to show your support for your club. As well as the official outlets there are a number of different retailers...
by ReadTheLeague | Apr 17, 2021 | 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 ReadTheLeague | Apr 8, 2021 | 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 ReadTheLeague | Nov 19, 2020 | The Big Feature
By David Meier After memorably winning the World Cup in 1966 and putting up a brave show in the 1970 tournament, the qualifying draw for the 1974...
by ReadTheLeague | Sep 6, 2020 | The Big Feature
Book Review: When Skies Are Grey by Mark Worrall What can we make of the 2019-2020 season. Unprecedented? Fractured? A Mess? To some degree it was...
by ReadTheLeague | Aug 14, 2020 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper IN 1999, Barcelona’s centenary year, a vote was held to decide the club’s greatest-ever player. Given the exploits since then of...
by ReadTheLeague | May 13, 2020 | The Big Feature
THE WINGLESS WONDER BY Vince Cooper WHEN Sir Alf Ramsey guided England to World Cup success in 1966 he did so by employing a revolutionary system...
by ReadTheLeague | May 9, 2020 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper Whilst Viv Anderson is rightly feted as the first black England international his place as the first non-white to wear the national...
by ReadTheLeague | May 5, 2020 | The Big Feature
By Vince Cooper White Cottage is where it all started. From this came Tottenham Hotspur FC, the name ‘White Hart Lane’ and the club’s first key man...
by ReadTheLeague | Apr 6, 2020 | The Big Feature
BY Vince Cooper As football suffers it’s longest enforced shutdown since the 2nd World War and with no end in sight, let’s look back to 1962-63 when...