A brief guide to football in NewYork, told by Jack Bell
1626 Dutchman Peter Minuit plunks down $24 in trinkets and baubles and backs his group of settlers against a disorganised band of local Reckagawawanc ...
We are now accepting entries for the 2018 WSC writers' competition. By way of inspiration, here is Matt Johnson’s runner-up entry from 2017, about a a new phenomenon of global football culture sweeping ...
... throw and the long ball when an early breakthrough isn’t achieved.
The status of the long-awaited new stadium and the precise nature of McNamara’s ongoing role at the club are as vague as ever. Bot ...
... lift his players out of the doldrums. At Bromley, new signings Jake Charles and Luke Woodland became the 58th and 59th players to turn out for York in 2016.
Despite all this, the board are pressing ahead ...
... in a hotel outside York with chairman Jason McGill and former boss Gary Mills, newly departed from Wrexham. Mills’ return was announced days later as was the fact that McNamara was remaining with the club ...
... just before New Year, and Jamie McCombe, who was absolutely rubbish, have been let go in this transfer window. Improving an atrocious defensive record is now a task entrusted to a back four made up of ...
... 938 World Cup in France he set a cultural template. Pelé was repeatedly pictured upside down in mid-air for Santos, NewYork Cosmos or the Seleção. When Zico, another Flamengo star, went airborne to boo ...
... offload – and not being able to. Portsmouth and West Ham’s travails have had the highest recent profile, while at Newcastle Mike Ashley’s decision to withdraw the club from sale has rekindled some of the ...
... restructure the club, which would have involved Turl buying £200,000 worth of shares as part of a wider investment plan and the appointment of a new chairman and vice-chairman. But chairman Geoff Dunford ...
The newly relegated Minstermen are struggling to acclimatise – not just to Conference football, but to the diabolical weather: it's grim up north London, as Taylor Parkes reports Barnet might be seen ...
Tom Davies reports on three of the Football League's troubled clubs The fight to secure the future of Wrexham at the Racecourse Ground (reported in WSC 208) has acquired a new urgency over the summer. ...
... despite the fact that no new long-term home has been secured. No one disputes that Griffin Park cannot be redeveloped as a football ground. But the fans, represented by the Brentford Independent Association ...
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1948 6-1 win over Rotherham filmed for National Coal Board training film. 1955 Lose FA Cup semi-final replay to Newcastle, giving rise to a conspiracy theory that no Third Division side should be allowed ...
... the pitch, and you were all crammed into a poky corner of the ground on a shallow sloping terrace. The New Shay was different – there would be plenty of room for everyone. We arrived early to savour the ...
Believe it or not, some English footballers ply their trade in China. Alistair Berg looks are the select few to make the journey to te newly professional league The Revolving Palace Hotel in Foshan ...
... on, new player-manager Trevor Francis prepared his team for Europe by giving Nilsson a new partner down the right wing: Chris Waddle. The two proved a perfect combination, Nilsson’s tireless work and discipline ...
... two hours before the most famous manager in the country, on day one of his new job, finally arrives. He walks in, immediately picks out utility player John “Shirley” Templeman and starts shouting at him, ...
... of more than 40 per cent against the rest of the programme that season, and continued success in subsequent years indicates the novelty is yet to wear off.
Felixstowe & Walton United set a new attendance ...
... room rant in Football Club For A Fiver – but recently a new trend has emerged as clubs themselves attempt to muscle in on what is fast becoming a battleground for a global fanbase.
Earlier this year ...