THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. Part Three. From the Southern League to the Football League
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. Part Three. From the Southern League to the Football League BY Vince Cooper WIMBLEDON made their debut in the...
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. Part Two. From the War to Wembley
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. Part Two. From the War to Wembley By Vince Cooper The return of football after the 2nd World War was gradual and many...
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. – Part One. From Wimbledon Common to Plough Lane
THE HISTORY OF WIMBLEDON F. C. PART ONE. FROM WIMBLEDON COMMON TO PLOUGH LANE Above: Wimbledon Greyhound and Speedway Stadium with Plough Lane at...
THE SEAGULLS
‘Saturday Afternoon’ by Fred Yates 1953. To see more of the artist’s work visit https://fredyates.wordpress.com Brighton & Hove Albion were...
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...
FROM INTER-CITIES TO UEFA CUP – Part One
From Inter-Cities to Europa League The story of The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup BY Vince Cooper Part One. 1955 to 1962 The Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ran...
GONE GROUNDS – THE DEN (part two)
BY Vince Cooper Part one of our article saw the growth of the club as they changed from Rovers to Athletic to just plain Millwall. It also saw them...
GONE GROUNDS – THE DEN – AND MILLWALL’S OTHER EARLY HOMES (PART ONE)
THE DEN – AND MILLWALL’S OTHER EARLY HOMES In 1885, tinsmiths at JT Morton’s factory on London’s Isle of Dogs decided to form a football team....
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...
FATHER AND SON
BY Vince Cooper NOT only were Alec and David Herd part of that rare breed of a father and son who both won the FA Cup. They had their biggest...
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...
THE CHESTERFIELD TOUGH
George Hunt – The Chesterfield Tough BY Vince Cooper IN the days before the Smithies, Mooreos and Parksys footballers often had nicknames that...
THE SHARPEST SHOOTER
THE JIMMY GREAVES STORY 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...
THE JEFF HALL STORY
Jeff Hall – A tragic loss with a positive effect BY Vince Cooper Jeff Hall was an England international footballer and, in the eyes of many,...
TEN YEARS AHEAD OF HIS TIME
BY Vince Cooper In 1968 England manager Sir Alf Ramsey claimed that Martin Peters was ‘Ten years ahead of his time’. Although the comment confused...
THE TEXACO / ANGLO-SCOTTISH CUP
In 1970-71 the Football Leagues of England, Scotland and Ireland decided to start a competition for those clubs that had just missed out on European...