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 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 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 Vince Cooper IN 2020 organised football all over the world was thrown into confusion by the coronavirus pandemic. In England many matches,...

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...

BY Vince Cooper Denis Law broke the British transfer record fee twice, when both joining and leaving Torino. The man who surpassed Law’s record did...

By Vince Cooper England’s Home International Championship match with Scotland at Wembley on 2 April 1955 was memorable for a number of reasons. It...

BY Vince Cooper IT is hard to imagine these days but there was a time when Scottish football wasn’t dominated by Celtic or even by the big two from...

By Vince Cooper Since it’s inception in 1872 the Football Association initially decided to keep final of the FA Cup in the south. Kennington Oval...

By Vince Cooper Many great players can look back and wonder how their career might have panned out were it not for the two great conflicts of the...

By Vince Cooper The 1947 FA Cup final saw Charlton Athletic return to Wembley just a year after the heartbreak of an extra-time defeat to Derby...

BY Vince Cooper Prior to the 2nd World War, football fans in Stirling were served by the Kings Park club who played their home games at Forthbank...