Before The 'D'...Association Football around the world, 1863-1937.

Patsy Gallacher in action. It looks like the defender is launching into the sort of challenge that would have modern referees reaching for...

A good goalkeeper, like a poet, is born, not made. Nature has all to do with the art in its perfection, yet very much call be done by e...

Capt. Thomas Sowerby Rowlandson. M.C. was killed in action during the 1914-18 war at the age of 36.  He was educated at Charterhouse a...

From the era of the half-time fag... John Player and Sons issued a coaching manual into which the 50 cigarette cards of this 1934 issue ...

There is no secret about it at all, from the time I started playing as a schoolboy  I've  always realized that to play the game well a...

Well-directed exercise is the chief factor in training for any  sport. Here I might warn against a most common error. Too many yout...

I like the fact that West Bromwich Albion were originally called West Bromwich Strollers, but that piece of information had no bearing on...