“What is taken to the cup final every year but never used?” This used to be a quasi-famous trick question asked in pub quizzes and

When Jimmy Armfield died in 2018 the world of football mourned one of its true stalwarts and gentlemen while the people of Blackpool, Armfield’s adopted

Having previously looked – and laughed – at a number of clubs experiencing swift and dramatic falls from grace in the past, it’s now time

Last time out we had a look at some of the limited number of clubs who made it into the league via the archaic election

In 1987 Scarborough United became the first non-league side to win automatic promotion to the Football League when, as champions of the Alliance Premier League,

With Newcastle, Tottenham, Manchester United and Everton recently bowing to public pressure and dispensing with Steve Bruce, Nuno Espirito Santo, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Rafa

Welcome to the final article in the regular series of ‘Falls from Grace’. In previous outings, we have enjoyed ourselves with some healthy servings of

Last time out we had a look at Wolverhampton Wanderers and the club’s fall and rise and everything in between over a two-decade spell starting

In the 1970s and early 1980s, one of the most consistent clubs in the old First Division was Ipswich Town, then managed by Sir Bobby

What constitutes a ‘Real Fan’? The main man himself, Sir Alexander of Fergieland, once famously offered up his thoughts on the matter. He declared a

April 29, 1978, the last Saturday of the season and it’s a drizzly day in East London. West Ham are at home to European Cup

Welcome to the next instalment of our ‘Falls from Grace’ series where we take a look back at the rapid declines suffered by certain clubs

A running theme in our new series is the number of clubs who hit upon hard times shortly after delivering European success to their fans.

Ordinarily, football goes in cycles and no one club dominates indefinitely; even supposed dynasties such as Liverpool in the 1970s and 80s, and Manchester United

Certain clubs seem to teem with tradition and are thus regarded by some to have always been amongst the biggest and most successful in the

Last time out we opened our series on ‘Falls from Grace” with a look at possibly the Granddaddy of them all; Manchester United’s descent from

One can only wonder at the pride a certain Mr and Mrs Charlton must have felt on 30th July 1966 in watching two of their

Some things in football, as in life, are deemed worse than others. For example, Alan Shearer, amongst others, contends there ‘is nothing worse than spitting

The modern game sees the sands shifting more regularly than ever before and such are its inconsistencies and vagaries that a player spending more than

After a short hiatus, our ‘Back to the Eighties’ series returns with a look at 1988 – a year which briefly gave cause for optimism,

So, our ‘Back to the Eighties’ series continues to hop, skip and jump along like Jonathon Edwards after a particularly-caffeine filled morning and we find

The year is 1981 and it’s the latest in our look-back series. Forty years on and memories and recollections of this particular calendar year remain

As the quasi-famous and somewhat tedious football chant goes, “There’s only one (insert player of choice)”. But is there? The quickest and most rudimentary of

With Liverpool and Manchester United both currently in the hunt for the title for the first time since 2009, the news that they had been