BY Vince Cooper THROUGHOUT his playing career – and then when he went into management – one word defined Dave Mackay – winner....

IF ONLY. THE TOMMY LAWTON STORY BY Vince Cooper The history of football is littered with ‘if onlys’. ‘What if the Manchester United side hadn’t been...

BY Vince Cooper ‘PETER Osgood and Charlie Cooke have more football in their little fingers than I have in my whole body!’ So said David Webb during...

ARSENAL 4 MANCHESTER UNITED 5 BY Vince Cooper ON February 1 1958, Manchester United travelled to North London to take on Arsenal in a First Division...

THE NOBBY STILES STORY BY Vince Cooper TO win a World Cup – so they say – you need a minimum of four world-class players. In 1966...

BY Vince Cooper ATTEMPTS were made to start a football club in Hull for some time before Hull City were formed in 1904. The main delays were caused...

THE LUIGI RIVA STORY BY Vince Cooper RARELY has one man had such a huge effect on one team as Luigi Riva, who passed away recently, had on Cagliari....

THE HUGHIE FERGUSON STORY Hughie Ferguson was a goalscoring hero in Scotland. In 1927 He became one in Wales when he scored the goal that won the...

Lev Yashin never wanted to be a goalkeeper. In fact he never even wanted to be a footballer. But the young man who first tried boxing and then went...

BY Vince Cooper DENIS Law was one of those players that it was hard to dislike, even if he wasn’t on your team. He played the game with gusto and...

LOCAL HERO The Jimmy Dimmock story BY Vince Cooper WHILST it is nice when your club makes those big-name, big-money signings there are few better...

THE JOHNNY HAYNES STORY BY Vince Cooper OFTEN we look back at a footballer’s career and wonder ‘what might have been’. One move, one new teammate,...