Long Reads

This week I have been thinking about some football bugbears. The little things in football that annoy me and leave

In this final part of the review of Don Revie’s career in football, we will look at the scarcely believable

On a very personal note, I have seen some terrible performances. As an impassioned fan I have felt it all,

On Wednesday 27 May 1992, the FA Premier League was finally established as a limited company. This had followed the

‘Twas a Hogmanay at the Glasga’ fair There was me, ma self and several mair’ The French Riviera in the

After the ridiculousness that constituted the 1995-96 Blackpool FC season, it was essential to steady the ship in 1996-97 and

Football’s a funny old game. At least in the mind of Jimmy Greaves. Try telling that to Coventry City fans

Spanish dreams and English designs It’s hard to imagine a world where the Spanish game was influenced by an Englishman.

The duel between winger and full-back is one of the game’s enduring battles and attractions. It spans generations in its

31-0. It was the final score of a match between Australia and a team from Samoa. If you’re expecting this

Last week we looked at the progress, or lack of, of Blackpool FC in the first half of the 1990s.

A long-held opinion within certain quarters in the game is that England has always had a mistrust of ‘flair’ players.

The appointment of David Moyes as manager in January 1998 would prove to be the catalyst for success for the

This is the history of the undisputed “King of Leeds”, Don Revie, after he left his beloved Whites during the

Real Madrid vs Barcelona is the best in terms of confrontation between two rival clubs. With an average of 3.3

I was recently looking through my collection of Corinthian Figurines. These were one of the must-have collectables of the 1990s

In part two of their rollercoaster ride through the 1990s, we saw Nottingham Forest bounce back to the Premier League at the

In part one, we told the story of the very origins of football, from the Mayans’ bloodthirsty pursuits to how

The first (half) season of the new millennium saw Blackpool FC suffer exactly the same fate as that of a

The lad with impact ideas Jimmy Hogan was born on 16 October 1882 in Burnley, just five months after the

Part one of this journey featured the final days of Brian Clough’s golden era and four domestic cup triumphs from

In summer 2003, he has been introduced to Carlo Ancelotti as an absolute world premiere. A child prodigy at play

Howard Gayle made his name at Birmingham City in the early 80s. But prior to his move there, he became

Sat on the fringes of the Championship play-offs, it’s hard to think of Nottingham Forest as two-time European Cup winners

At the end of a drab, square building in Shrewsbury is a slightly sunken square of concrete slabs. The area