FA CUP 1932-33. THE NUMBERS GAME
By Vince Cooper Every FA Cup provides a few great stories. Fine individual performances, famous giant-killings, the arrival onto the scene of new...
William Ralph – The Dixie Dean story
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...
Puddy
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...
Nudger
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...
Kick Off Merchants – Working Together
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...
Charlie, Charlie, Charlie
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...
Trevor Roberts
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...
A Clown Breaks England Hearts
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...
When Skies Are Grey by Mark Worrall
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...
KUBALA – THE MAN WHO BUILT BARCELONA
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...
THE BRITISH TRANSFER RECORD BREAKERS – MARTIN PETERS
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...
FRANK SOO – PIONEER
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...
BOBBY BUCKLE – THE FATHER OF SPURS
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...
THE BIG FREEZE
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...
CLAPHAM – THE FIRST ROVERS
In its early days the FA Cup was an almost exclusively southern affair, with the notable exception of the mighty Queen’s Park team from Scotland. A...
THE PRINCE OF WINGERS
BY Vince Cooper WHEN Billy Meredith made his final appearance he was less than four months short of his 50th birthday. He had won the F.A. Cup with...