You have a few that has been given the “Sir” title in football and we would surely bring this to the table addressing Roy Hodgson as one to be “knighted”. His services to football and the knowledge he has brought forward through six decades is just fantastic. The first time we heard of him in…
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Why Scotland never won the World Cup!
Today Scotland is a struggling nation of football with a national team that hasn’t played in a finals tournament since the Euro’s of 2000. They had a long tradition of reaching the finals of World Cup’s but that is no longer happening and the last time Scotland reached the finals was in 1998. The fact…
Newcastle United, back to old heights or just continue as the “odd” man out
The club is a massive disappointment at the moment, not that being a Premier League team is bad, but it’s just not close to the potential. Newcastle United have the tradition, the history, the great number 9’s and of course blasts from the past. It’s a long time ago that the club managed to win…
Who is Timo Werner, and how will the German adapt to English football
Timo Werner is a player chased by most of the top clubs in English football, including Liverpool and Manchester United, also Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur are seen as a potential new clubs as Red Bull Leipzig could wave farewell to one fantastic forward. His tally for the German national team is impresse, 11 goals in…
Nephew Tom and Uncle Alan, are they two of a kind, the story of an Everton double act in football
Few of the generation today might remember Alan Whittle, a lively winger and massive talent of the 70’s league winning champions. Alan never really managed to establish him fully in the first team and despite playing 67 league games and scoring 21 goals over a period of five years from 1967 to 1972. A tricky…
The myth of the NASL as an Old Boys league, they formed some of the best talents in football
No one will ever argue about the fact that a great number of players that turned out in NASL had seen their best years in football, but it was not just a league of “old boys” such as Pele, Johan Cruyff, George Best and Franz Beckenbauer. The fact that some great talented youngsters also traveled…
Lancelot, no Vincelot, the French warrior of the English “Little Leagues”
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…
When Swindon Town was fab, Don Rogers, Glenn Hoddle and all that!
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 and their 1970 unique all English “Lions of Vienna”
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…
The life of Graham Alexander, 1000 or more amazing footballing adventures, past, present and what will the future bring?
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,…
