ALF’S BAPTISM OF FIRE

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN ENGLAND MADE AN EARLY ‘EUROS’ EXIT IN 1963 UNDER THEIR NEW MANAGER On the stretch: Jimmy Armfield...

TALES TO WHET THE APPETITE

The Away Leg: XI Football Stories From on the Road, by Steve Menary and James Montague, published by Pitch Publishing, Price:...

AN UNFORGETTABLE EUROS

ROBERT J WILSON PICKS OUT SOME OF HIS HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CONTINENTAL SHOWPIECE... THERE is no doubting that Euro 2020 will...

GO FOR IT, GARETH

CHRIS DUNLAVY EXPLAINS WHY THE ENGLAND BOSS MUST RELEASE THE HANDBRAKE IF THE THREE LIONS ARE TO TRIUMPH IN THE EUROS......

KEEPING IT REAL

SAM TODD SUGGESTS ENGLAND FANS SHOULDN’T GET TOO EXCITED ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP GLORY THIS SUMMER... WOULD it really...

TERRY’S EURO ’96 WARM-UP

STUART STEELYARD RECALLS HOW TERRY VENABLES PLOTTED ENGLAND’S COURSE TOWARDS A MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS ON HOME TURF... AFTER Graham Taylor’s England failed...

A ROLLERCOASTER LEEDS RIDE

AUTHOR STEVEN DAWSON EXPLAINS WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE FOLLOWED HIS BELOVED TEAM FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY... ALTHOUGH I’d experienced...

POSH PROVE THEIR CLASS

BILLY MULLEY REFLECTS ON PETERBOROUGH’S PROMOTION TO THE CHAMPIONSHIP-AND THEIR PROSPECTS NEXT TERM... What a feeling: Joe Ward celebrates with ecstatic...

CROATIAN SPURS

BARNABY ROSTANT RECALLS  WHEN THREE COMPATRIOTS PLAYED A STARRING ROLE  AT TOTTENHAM... Earning their Spurs: Vedran Corluka   Niko Kranjcar in action...

ENGLAND NEED FAB FODEN

GARETH SOUTHGATE MUST PLAY MANCHESTER CITY STAR PHIL FODEN AT THE EUROS IF THE THREE LIONS ARE TO BE SUCCESSFUL, ARGUES...

JIMMY GLASS’ GOAL-DEN MOMENT

KEVIN HALLS RECALLS WHEN A LITTLE KNOWN GOALKEEPER MADE HIMSELF AN UNEXPECTED HERO... Would you believe it? Goalkeeper Jimmy Glass celebrates...

BLACKPOOL’S ITALIAN JOB

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS WHEN THE SEASIDERS SHONE ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE... Crav-ing success: Overjoyed Blackpool skipper John Craven holds the Anglo-Italian...

HOPPING GLAD TO EXPLORE EUROPE

 PAUL D RYAN TAKES A LOOK BACK AT HIS EUROPEAN FOOTBALL HOP WITH PAL TREVOR THIRTY YEARS AGO..  Dutch courage: At Feyenoord...

HIGHFIELD ROAD HEAVEN

COVENTRY CITY SUPPORTER KEVIN HALLS RECALLS THE SKY BLUES’ FAMOUS OLD HOME... The way it was: Coventry’s old Highfield Road ground...

SURPRISES SUCCESS

THOMAS HEATH SAYS THE NATIONS LEAGUE HAS BEEN AN UNEXPECTED TRIUMPH... THERE was an audible groan let out by most of...

MAIN MAN MOYES

THOMAS BLOW SAYS WEST HAM NEED TO BACK BOSS DAVID MOYES THIS TIME AROUND IF THEY ARE TO CHALLENGE THE BIG...

FEELING BLUE

BIRMINGHAM CITY FANATIC KEITH DIXON RECALLS WHEN HIS FAVOURITES LAST FEATURED IN AN FA CUP FINAL... What a hero: Manchester City’s...

My love affair with Notts County

A trip to Meadow Lane in 1999 to watch the Magpies take on Arsenal...

PEP’S BIG TEST

AFTER LOSING SEVERAL KEY PLAYERS, THOMAS BLOW WONDERS WHETHER PEP GUARDIOLA CAN SUCCESSFULLY REBUILD HIS MANCHESTER CITY TEAM... Staying put: Manchester...

ARMCHAIR FANS – GIVE THEM A BREAK…

JOE SMITH says the rising cost of going to games means more fans may end up staying at home JOE SMITH...

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH…

KEVIN HALLS says fans need to be fully prepared for a long, hard season… KEVIN HALLS THE new season has started...

BLUES, VILLANS AND BAGGIES SHARE SPOTLIGHT

KEITH DIXON on his role in a show about West Midlands football – and why Birmingham City are the working-class club…...

MY MAGNIFICENT SEVEN!

COLIN ALLAN explains why supporting a variety of clubs can be more fulfilling than backing just one team… COLIN ALLAN LIFE’S...

ANYONE FOR TICKETS?

TOM WICKS looks at the reasons behind the growing problem of season ticket holders picking and choosing which games they attend…...

GETTING TOO CLOSE…

ROB BRADLEY says that the wish to be move involved at your favourite club can sometimes backfire IQUITE like Miles Jupp....

SUPPORTING THE SUPPORTERS

With an increasing trend for foreign ownership, ROSS KEEN asks whether the Fit and Proper regulation is in fact Fit and...

WHAT FANS DEMAND…

STEVE CUMBER says that football supporters take a different attitude at the match than they do anywhere else… For many years...

MY QUEST TO DO THE 92…

Football fanatic ALEX MANNERS, 19, is on a mission to complete the 92 Premier League and Football League grounds. He’s already...

WHY ROCHDALE?

RICHARD FOAD explains his lifelong love for an unfashionable club...  I’VE been asked the question headlining this article many times over...

You can change clubs!

AT LATE TACKLE, we receive plenty of articles every month and this time around there was a connection between a couple...