who was born only a few miles from Macclesfield, in Wimslow, Cheshire {see photos and captions below}. Whitaker was one of three Macclesfield players who made the 2018 National League Team of the Year. The other two were the Kurdish Iraqi-born-/-Hastings-E Sussex-raised GK...
Interestingly, actual safe standing sections are already in Premier League. Tottenham introduced them at their massive south stand of brand new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last spring. During this season Wolverhampton Wanderers were the ones to convert their south stand to safe standing. Of course in b...
Cheltenham Town started slow, but stormed to the top of the 5th-division-table in late-December 2015, and never looked back, coasting to the 15/16 National League title by 12 points over nearby rivals Forest Green Rovers. The Robins began to put distance from the rest during a mid-winter...
The First and Second Congresses of the League of Communists were held in London in 1847, and the First International was founded here in 1864. On May 4, 1890, the first Sunday of the month, the workers of London held the first demonstration in commemoration of the Day of International ...
A former Manchester United defender is set to tee off in a golf tournament in Thailand alongside Lee Westwood and a host of former Premier League stars later this year. The Icons Series sees Westwood team up with a number of former Eng...
the competition's standing was improved and in the 1968–69 season only Manchester United declined to participate. Everton chose not to compete in 1970–71 so that they could concentrate their efforts on the European Cup. Entry was made compulsory for all Football League teams the following year...
The tailgating scene in Foxboro doesn’t get the love that other places in the league get, but Patriots fans can hang with any fanbase in the league when it comes to pregame parties. Gillette’s rural location means there’s lots of room around for, well, lots. Cars line up along Rou...
The competition was created by the Football Association in 1969 to afford semi-professional teams an opportunity to compete for the chance to play at the Wembley Stadium. Fully-amateur clubs took part in the long-standing FA Amateur Cup, but most of the leading non-league clubs made at least...
Apart from the different formats John Player League matches were played in the middle of Championship matches, normally the Sunday of a 4 day double bill. There was little if any complaint about the difficulty of adjusting to different formats even when the JPL game was played in the middle ...
The map shows the Football League in 1920-21, when the first First Division champions were Burnley FC (their first English title), and when the Third Division was introduced. Table of Contents: Part 1). Description of Map page. Part 2). A synopsis of Burnley’s title-winning season of ...