Published November 8, 2020 MEETING THE FIRST GENTLEMAN OF SOCCER, SIR STANLEY MATTHEWS It’s difficult to know where to begin when it comes to talking about Stanley Matthews. He wasn’t only, as Bobby Robson said, […]
Published March 24, 2021 CRERAND FROM THE GORBALS Pat Crerand is nearly always referred to as “Irish-Scottish”. Pat’s father, Michael, from Newtownstewart in County Tyrone, didn’t live long enough for […]
Published April 21, 2021 THE AMAZING GARY MABBUTT SPURS LEGEND Why call him “Amazing”? Well, read on! He spent 16 years at Spurs — 1982 until 1998 — and was the club […]
Published September 16, 2020 ONE OF THE GREATEST NIGHTS OF MY FOOTBALLING LIFE I’d often heard of it — of course I had! To anyone with even afaint interest in sport, the name Yankee Stadium […]