Saturday 8th August 1992 A 9 year old me enjoying the school summer holidays was excited at the prospect of going to watch Chelsea at Bristol City in a pre season friendly. It was also just one week before the launch of the newly named Premier League. Chelsea had already signed John Spencer, Robert Fleck, […]
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“The best invention ever”, were the words used by Leyton Orient chairman, Barry Hearn, to describe the play-offs. Quite a statement, considering his comments came in the wake of his team’s defeat to Blackpool in the third division play-off final in 2001. Indeed, since its inception, over 100 clubs have competed in over 400 play-off […]
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‘Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.’ – Leonardo Da Vinci England expects. It has since 1966. Three generations have been born and grown into adulthood in the intervening years. If you were […]
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For those of us of a certain age the name John Lyall is synonymous with a golden era for West Ham United. Lyall won two FA Cups in his time as West Ham manager, and also took the club to a European final, a League Cup final, the second division title and a best-ever finish […]
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John Motson or ‘Motty’ as he was known will be fondly remembered by many football supporters up and down the land as the voice of football that they’d grown up with, throughout the 70’s and well into the 00’s. John Motson was a very talented professional who adapted to all forms of broadcasting for the […]
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Goalscoring shall never go out of fashion particularly with the likes of Harry Kane, beating, creating and chasing goal records with Spurs goal number 267 to overtake the legendary Jimmy Greaves. It should though be noted that Greaves scored 268 goals for Spurs (including two in the 1962 Charity Shield) – a fixture often overlooked […]
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To many modern football fans, the idea of the beautiful game in the 1950s is less of a reference point and more a combination of myth and legend. Even watching back the scratchy footage of the likes of Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney, John Charles, Nat Lofthouse and others seems increasingly alien compared to what we’ve […]
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The 1985-86 season saw Arsenal Football Club celebrate their centenary. In terms of the great sides of their long and illustrious past this vintage wasn’t a patch on the great 1971 double side. But what it did have was Anthony Stewart “Tony” Woodcock. Born in the town of Eastwood in the staunchly working class Nottinghamshire […]
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York City 1 Arsenal 0, 26/01/1985 This fourth round tie had pretty much every FA Cup cliché you could wish for; a snowbound pitch, John Motson in the commentary box and a dramatic late finish as Third Division York City knocked out the mighty Arsenal thanks to a last minute penalty from Keith Houchen. York […]
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We all have that one World Cup that we remember most fondly, whether it be the first World Cup you truly remember while growing up or the one tournament that captured your imagination because of the pure football on show we all have that summer of football that we can call our own. If you […]
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