THE WAR CUPS
BY Vince Cooper IT is often written that football stopped during World War Two and while it’s true that ‘official matches’ like the Football League...
FA CUP 1922-23. SUCCESS FOR WANDERERS AND THE WHITE HORSE
By Vince Cooper ON a bleak January day in 1922 a select group convened near the top of a hill in Middlesex. After a few preliminaries H.R.H. The...
Six New Books
The people at Pitch Publishing, one of the foremost publishers of sports books, have certainly been busy and here are six of their new titles with,...
RIDE TO HELL. Prisoner Of A Dubious Peace. By Paul Ride
Just over 30 years ago, an Englishman – and avid Chelsea fan – working in Kuwait as a catering manager was arrested in Iraq for...
KEITH WELLER – A CLASS ACT
BY Vince Cooper Keith Weller is remembered by many as ‘the footballer who wore tights’ . But beneath the undergarments there was a top-class...
New Books – July 2022
IT’S the middle of summer so live football – aside from the Women’s Euros – is at a premium. Whilst waiting for the new campaign to...
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
FOR BETTER OR WORSE LIFE, LOVE AND SUPPORTING CHELSEA IN THE 1990s By Jason Gibbins Published by Gate17 Books Reviewed by Dave Cooper Chelsea fans...
THE SHARPEST SHOOTER
BY Vince Cooper HE was left out of the 1966 World Cup final line-up when quite possibly still at his peak but there is no doubt that, for a good...
The Greatest All-Rounder
BY Vince Cooper Was there anything C. B. Fry couldn’t do? The man writer Geoffrey Green described as; “A mortal who came from Olympus”, played...
Gone Grounds: Peel Park. Part One
Peel Park and the History of Accrington Stanley. When Accrington F.C. were operating as one of the Football League’s original 12 clubs another team...
The Owd Reds
The Owd Reds – The Brief History of Accrington F.C. The list of the original twelve members of the Football League contains 11 teams many of...
Local Boy Dimmock Wins It For Spurs
1920-21 FA CUP BY Vince Cooper The 1921 FA Cup final was held at Stamford Bridge the second year that the West London ground had the honour of...
The Three-Match Season
BY Vince Cooper In recent times the Coronavirus pandemic has seen us go through a period of no football at all followed by a significantly longer...
George Cohen
BY Vince Cooper An end-of-season friendly in 1964 saw England, with Bobby Moore, skippering the team for the first time at Wembley, beat Uruguay 2-1...
SIR ROGER
BY Vince Cooper THE World Cup winning team of 1966 are all rightly lauded as greats of the English game. One of the less-heralded members of the...
FA CUP 1969-70. BRUTAL
BRUTAL BY Vince Cooper THE 1969-70 F.A Cup saw Leeds United and Chelsea take the final to a second match, the first time the season’s showpiece had...