Match Of The Seventies – 1974/75

All is quiet in the football world (apart, that is, from the financial crisis engulfing Rotherham United – more of which at a later date – and Celtic getting beaten at home by Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup), so it’s time for another episode of Match Of The Seventies. This one is from the 1974/75 [...]

Match Of The Seventies – 1973/74

We’re up to 1973/74 on “Match Of The Seventies”, and what a peculiar season it was. Tonight’s episode features Leeds United’s record-breaking unbeaten run, Liverpool tearing Newcastle United a new hole in the FA Cup Final, England failing to qualify for the World Cup, Spurs fans rioting in Rotterdam at the UEFA Cup final and [...]

Match Of The Seventies – 1972/73

Match Of The Seventies – 1970/71

Many years ago, the BBC produced two (relatively) light-hearted TV programmes about football in the 1970s and the 1980s. Some enterprising soul has seen fit to put them up on YouTube so, over the next few weeks I’m going to be putting them up on here. Each episode is divided up into four ten minute [...]

Munich: 50 Years On

The European Cup was created, in many ways, because it could be. The end of the Second World War left Europe with a sizeable quota of aircraft to be converted for commercial use. This, combined with the boastful claims of Wolverhampton Wanderers (who claimed to be the champions of Europe after friendly victories against the [...]

A Video Of Coventry City Tearing Liverpool A New Hole

Strange, really, but at the end of such an eventful week, what I really want to do this evening is sit down and have a couple of delicious, cold gin and tonics. It’s also been a stressful week. I may turn up back on here later on this evening, full of gin and fraternal love, [...]

The Christmas Rush

The last few days have been eerily quiet. The week before Christmas is always like the calm before the storm – the League Cup quarter-finals like the first big, inky spots of rain before all hell breaks loose and the storm that is the Christmas schedule starts. In case you’re unaware of what I’m talking [...]

Well Fielded

Not for the first time over the course of the last few months, my thoughts have been turning back to Enfield again over the course of the day. Some of you will already have read it, but for those of you that haven’t, here it is again:
Enfield 1-0 Lincoln City – FA Trophy Quarter-Final 1988: [...]

The Ten Most Significant Figures In The History Of The England Football Team

Our very good friend Little Dotmund is our guest writer this morning, and he has decided to pore over who are the 10 most significant figures in the history of the England football team, “in chronological order, so as to avoid arguments”, he says.
1. HERBERT CHAPMANReason for inclusion: Tactical revolutionary
The greatest pre-war manager in English [...]

How Many Candles?

During the summer, there were audible gasps when Puma released Spurs’ kits – alongside the white home kit and very, very dark blue change kits was a white and sky blue halved number, which looked like a Blackburn home shirt that had been left out in the sun for too long. All became apparent in [...]