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1. When Neil Warnock led Notts County to a shock season in the top division
(Stories)
... to our neighbours across the Trent. By the end of September Paul Rideout was signed from Southampton for £250,000. When he got a debut goal at what turned out to be our best performance of the season, ...
Created on 16 April 2018
2. Fans across UK donating tonnes of food and clothes to help local communities ...
(Stories)
... four years have come from collections at Celtic Park, and one at the home league match with Ross County this September took in almost five tonnes of food and 600 pairs of trainers, with schoolchildren ...
Created on 07 December 2017
3. Celtic crossed ...
(Players)
... d lured him across to Ireland with the offer of £1,000 per outing and, for his first game against Drogheda United, Celtic took in £6,000 at the turnstiles. "I am a businessman who just loves to play footbal ...
Created on 01 November 2011
4. Sheffield Wednesday 2 Notts County 1
(Match of the month)
... ed to the injustice of the throw-in by refusing to clear the ball. After a looping cross from the otherwise terrible Clinton Morrison is ignored by the opposition, Julian Bennett volleys crisply into the ...
Created on 21 October 2011
5. County caught
(Clubs)
... to hand over some questions to council leader Dave Goddard. Unsurprisingly, he was “away on holiday”. Unrest is also growing, with abusive messages directed at Sale Sharks and Kennedy spray-painted across ...
Created on 21 March 2010
6. County life
(Non-League)
... Rossi saw off Oldham; Gabriel Heinze also played. Man City, meanwhile, had beaten Ricky Sbragia’s United at Eastlands in 2005. Occasionally someone else gets in on the act: Oldham defeated City (including ...
Created on 21 February 2009
7. Derby County 0 Middlesbrough 1
(Match of the month)
... ought to be capable. Stewart Downing flicks in a cross to Tuncay who, at last awakening to his responsibilities as a Boro hero-in-waiting, volleys in first time in what is probably the goal of the day ...
Created on 21 February 2008
8. Derby County 1 Coventry City 1
(Match of the month)
... Neanderthal settlement to the north where bestiality was practised on a regular basis. Notts County were only across the river, but neither side could stay in the same division long enough to get a decent ...
Created on 14 November 2005
9. Notts County 1991-92
(As good as it got)
... (for the record, he didn’t). The 2-0 defeat at Old Trafford didn’t set alarm bells ringing – that came after a 4-0 home defeat to our neighbours across the Trent. By the end of September Paul Rideout ...
Created on 14 February 2005
10. Cross in the box ...
(Editorials)
Democracy comes to football in differing forms So, democracy comes to football. Luton Town’s decision to elect their new man­ager, referred to in WSC 197, pro­duced a most unexpected result in late June ...
Created on 14 August 2003
11. Tights, trainers and turf thaw: how football clubs coped with the big freeze of 1978-79
(Stories)
... at places other than football grounds over the next few months if things continue to get worse”. After blizzards blew in on New Year’s Eve, there was widespread disruption across all four divisions. ...
Created on 29 January 2019
12. Swindon in the Premier League: pretty passing, defensive disasters and Fjortoft’s celebrations
(Stories)
...  form had been reproduced across the whole season, we would have finished 15th, just above Spurs. Instead those final 14 games yielded just eight points with a further 38 goals conceded. I take some prid ...
Created on 02 January 2019
13. Unnecessary use of change shirts is becoming increasingly absurd
(Stories)
...  home shirts featured royal blue across the sleeves and sides. Everton duly borrowed Luton’s orange away tops which they wore with their own white shorts and blue socks. Luton, winless on the road tha ...
Created on 29 November 2018
14. It Is What It Is: The Carlton Palmer story
(Players)
... uncompromising, stubborn, competitive man, and this comes across repeatedly in the book. He even manages to aggressively give up drinking when Howard Wilkinson, his manager at Leeds, suggests he cut down ...
Created on 22 August 2018
15. How the Texaco Cup briefly gripped parts of Scotland and the West Midlands
(Stories)
Embed from Getty Images Involving the top teams from across the UK and Republic of Ireland, the Texaco Cup started well before dying out – as Jim Heath explained in WSC 173, July 2001 29 January ...
Created on 29 January 2018
16. From the archive ~ Traditional floodlights are a sad casualty of modern stadiums
(Stories)
... criss-cross pattern. Several survive, at Shrewsbury, Orient, Fulham, Darlington, Cambridge United and Cardiff City, inter alia. Ones that have gone? Palace, Wrexham, Oxford United, Spurs, both Nottingham ...
Created on 25 September 2017
17. Rangers’ “other” Glasgow derby as key to Pedro Caixinha’s future as Celtic clash
(Stories)
... Caixinha’s Rangers career remains at a crossroads. After overseeing two of the worst defeats in the club’s history, the Portuguese manager must start producing more than hints of progress. Tonight’s second ...
Created on 19 September 2017
18. Living in a dream world: The agonising decisions of “fantasy” football
(Stories)
... defender?” but it’s a scenario fantasy leaguers across the country have been forced to face. Most people end up with teams that include a handful of talented players supplemented with journeymen and rash ...
Created on 16 March 2017
19. WSC 359 out now
(Stories)
... which football was enjoyed in the period, for the most part the same problems applied across the nation. Buy here to read the full article Fatal attractions Discovering football Six in the morning ...
Created on 07 December 2016
20. Friendlies don’t need hype to make them worthwhile
(Stories)
...  of Europe before the league season has started and holders Ross County are out the League Cup before the friendlies are finished. Pre-season Burnley, eventually winning 3-1, provided Rangers with thei ...
Created on 08 August 2016

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