Tag: Premium

RISING!TO!THE!! !CHALLENGE

STEPPING UP IN STYLE STUART!STEELYARD LOOKS!ATTHE! CLUBS!WHO!HAVE SHONE!ON!THEIR! ARRIVAL!IN!THE! TOP-FLIGHT!OF ENGLISH!FOOTBALL… THE prime objective of a newly promoted club in […]

BILL!GLAZIERSKY! BLUES!LEGEND

COVENTRY CITY KEVIN!HALLS!RECALLS!A!GOALKEEPER!WHO!WOWED THE!FANS!AT!COVENTRY!WITH!!HIS!BRILLIANCE… Standing tall: Former Coventry goalkeeper Bill Glazier at the Legends Parade at the Ricoh Arena in […]

BUZZING!!BEES

BRENTFORD ON THE RISE LUKE!!PHELPS!!EXAMINES!!HOW!!BRENTFORD’S!!SHREWD RECRUITMENT!!HAS!!HELPED!!THEM!!CLIMB!!HIGH… BRENTFORD´S steady ascent up the Football League is one to be both studied and […]

HOLLANDV BRAZIL -A!WORLD CUP!RIVALRY

CLASH OF THE GIANTS ROSS!KILVINGTON!LOOKS!BACK!AT!THE!CLASHES BETWEEN!TWO!OF!FOOTBALL’S!GIANTS… THE third place play-off at the World Cup is often seen as an afterthought, […]

BACK!TO THEIR!ROOTS

SOUTHEND UNITED IT’S!OFTEN!SAID!THAT!FOOTBALL!CLUBS!FORGET!ABOUT!THEIR!OLD!PLAYERS,!THE HEROES!WHO!ACHIEVED!GREAT!FEATS!AND!SPILT!BLOOD!FOR!THE!CAUSE.!LATE!TACKLE! REPORTS!ON!HOW!SOUTHEND!UNITED!ARE!ONE!CLUB!ATTEMPTING!TO!BUCK!THE!TREND… Big reunion: Former Southend players met up last March and, inset, Derek Spence, left, and […]

GORDON!ASTALL ENGLAND’S!OLDEST

BIRMINGHAM!CITY!FAN!KEITH!DIXON!REFLECTS!ON!THE!CAREER!OF!A!BLUES!HERO WHEN Ivor Broadis died in April last year, the accolade of being the oldest living England International footballer fell […]

IT’S!A!NUMBERS GAME

MIXING THINGS UP CHRIS!SERGEANT!EXAMINES HOW!SHIRT!NUMBERS HAVE!CHANGED!BEYOND !ALL!RECOGNITION… THE allocation of shirt numbers can be a source of consternation among footballing […]

WOW WHAT A DECADE,

HIGHS AND LOWS JACQUES LE-BON TAKES A LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE KEY MOMENTS AND STORIES OVER THE LAST […]

BOXING DAY BONANZA

KEVIN HALLS RECALLS A CRAZY DAY OF GOALS ALMOST 60 YEARS AGO… WELL, we are now into a new year […]

THANKS BALD EAGLE

FOOTBALL LEGEND TOM BLACKETT LOOKS BACK AT THE LIFE OF THE LATE JIM SMITH IT WAS a sign of how […]

ENGLAND’S 70S MAVERICKS

LOOKING BACK DAVID DOCHERTY EXAMINES THE FORTUNES OF HALF-A-DOZEN OF OUR MOST TALENTED PLAYERS… Invariably, when books are written about […]

MY EFLTEAM OF THE DECADE

A CLASS APART CHRIS DUNLAVY OF OUR SISTER PUBLICATION THE FOOTBALL LEAGUE PAPER SELECTS HIS ALL-STAR XI FROM the rise […]

REDS IN THE USA

GOING ON TOUR STEPHEN BRANDT LOOKS BACK AT WHEN LIVERPOOL FIRST HEADED TO THE STATES WHEN we see European clubs […]

WARMING UP FOR ‘66

PREPARING FOR GLORY COLIN ALLAN LOOKS BACK AT HOW ALF RAMSEY HONED HIS SQUAD IN READINESS FOR THE WORLD CUP […]

RUNNING REPAIRS

EXPERIENCED PHYSIO GAVIN BLACKWELL ON THE VARIETY OF ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE DEALT WITH Pain game: Charlton’s Erhun Oztumer […]

WATCHING BRIEF

IAN MCF ARLANE LOOKS AT THE WAY WE VIEW FOOTBALL-AND PREDICTS HOW IT COULD CHANGE… YOU can’t avoid the mainstream […]

ROONEY AND THE RAMS

DERBY COUNTY JOHN WRAGG TAKES A LOOK AT THE CHALLENGE FACING THE!ENGLAND LEGEND AT PRIDE PARK On the burst: Wayne […]

BREAKING FREE

FREESTYLE FOOTBALL PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL FREESTYLER AND THREE-TIME WORLD RECORD! HOLDER BEN NUTTALL. 19.TELLS US ABOUT HIS WORLD Top venue: Showing […]