Match Of The Past: Southampton
Continuing our summer series of highlights of matches from days gone by, this morning we turn our attention to one of this years newcomers to the Premier League, Southampton. Well,...
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Match Of The Past: Newcastle United
It is now forty-three years since Newcastle United last won a major trophy, but last season saw Alan Pardew restore a little pride to the club with a fifth place...
100 Owners: Number 93 – Bill Hiddelston (Third Lanark)
There is a curious paradox at the heart of the dynamic of a football club which always seems likely to attract a certain type of undesirable to the game. In...
Match Of The Past: Norwich City
As regular readers of this site will be aware, we are delving back into the past over the course of this summer so bring you collections of videos from English...
100 Owners: Number 94 – Mazhar Majeed (Croydon Athletic)
It is very seldom that a non-league football club makes the headlines of a national newspaper for any reason other than a surprise result in the FA Cup, but at...
Match Of The Past: Arsenal
As regular readers of this site will probably be aware, we’re filling the gaps between the end of last season and the start of next season with some great football...
Match Of The Past: Manchester United
Now a global brand and institution, there was a time when Manchester United was not as successful as it is now. The story of this club is one that is...
100 Owners: No.95 – Bob Lord (Burnley)
When we talk of the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers that ran our football clubs as their own fiefdoms for most of the twentieth century, there is perhaps one man...
100 Owners: Number 96 – (George Cripps &) Joseph Connor (Leeds City)
As those of you that have been keeping up to date with this series will already be aware, there was probably no golden age for football in England when the...
Match Of The Past: Everton
Everton Football Club is one of English footballs great institutions. Founder members of the Football League in 1888, they are second only to Arsenal in terms of their unbroken record...
100 Owners: No.97 – Graham White (Colne Dynamoes)
We have, in recent years, become rather too accustomed to a boom and bust culture in football, particularly at clubs in the lower divisions. Few clubs, however, have ever boomed...
Match Of The Past: Chelsea
Football League play-off finals aside, the domestic season is now all-but over and last week saw the last of our non-league videos of the week. To fill the gap between...
100 Owners: 98. Henry Norris (Arsenal)
The formative years of professional football in England were a turbulent time, a period in which the rules – both written and unwritten – which underpin our notions of how...
100 Owners: No.100 – John Houlding (Everton & Liverpool)
There is a point of view held by some that the olden days were better and somehow purer than the world that we live in today. Considering the twenty-four saturation...
44 Years On: Manchester City’s Last Football League Championship Revisited
The hard work, the experts will tell you, has been done. Victories against Manchester United and Newcastle United have taken Manchester City to the cusp of their first English league...
30 Years Ago Today: Remembering Football On The ZX Spectrum
Sometimes, a piece of technology comes along that not only comes to be regarded as the zeitgeist for the era from whence it came, but also as something which as...
European Championship Stories: 2008 – The End Of Politics
In Vienna in June of 2008, Fernando Torres broke free from his marker and shot the only goal in the final of that summers European Championships. It was a goal...
Smash & Grab! Bristol Rovers – The Warboys & Bannister Years
It is now almost forty years since Bristol Rovers ran up one of the most remarkable unbeaten runs in the entire history of the Football League, and their attack at...