To be French and playing in the Premier League is like “Fish & Chips” and something few would talk much about as a sensation, but to see such a player playing most of his career for minor clubs in English football is a rare and seldom affair. Romain Vincelot has at the age of 34…

Swindon Town was a club to count in the late 60’s and early 70’s steadying the ship in the 2nd tier of English football. But since then it’s been a bit of dark and grey at County Ground. The club are at the moment sailing in the 4th tier and under the guidence of Richie…

Manchester City were FA Cup title holders and qualified for the 1970 European Cup Winners Cup, and while everyone made a point of the Celtic team winning the European Cup in 1967 only fielding Scottish players, few or no one made notice of the all English winners of Manchester City. This is the last time…

Graham Alexander might not have been part of the most spectacular happenings in football, but his life as a player and now manager is more than exciting reading. He was the second outfield player in English football history to reach a 1000 games added up during a 24 year career with Scunthorpe United, Luton Town,…

England have a great number of young talents at the moment and a few of them had the experience of winning the U.17 and U.20 World Cup three years ago, so how are they nursed forward and will it be possible to get the best out of them all. As a follow up on those…

England didn’t really set the World on fire with their full internationals during the 70’s, but the U.18’s was a totally different story. Champions in four Euro’s, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975. So how could everything go so wrong when you initially had the best youth players in the World. England, as we all know,…