- 41. Thriving women's grassroots game gives a chance to those who missed out at school
- (Stories)
- ... Saturday morning in early April. Sheffield United are at Boundary Park today. I don’t get to many away games, mainly cup fixtures if I do, so this morning is free to play football. Most of us knew each ...
- Created on 06 February 2018
- 42. How "they won" became "we won" – the rise of the partisan football fanatic
- (Stories)
- ... applause from the spectators” in favour of both teams. An indication of where football fandom was headed could be found further north, where early games between two pioneers of the Sheffield game, Sheffiel ...
- Created on 24 January 2018
- 43. Charlton fans end truce with owner Roland Duchatelet and plan new protests
- (Stories)
- ... places looking increasingly precarious. The losses of two first-team regulars in the form of last season’s top scorer Ricky Holmes to Sheffield United and highly touted academy product Ezri Konsa to ...
- Created on 19 January 2018
- 44. Micky Adams: My life in football
- (Managers)
- ... Leicester, Coventry, Port Vale (twice), Sheffield United and Tranmere – all confirm what we already know: that football chairmen are, by-and-large, devious idiots. There are memory lapses. Frank Sinclair’s ...
- Created on 18 January 2018
- 45. Ooh-Aah: The Bob Booker story by Greville Waterman
- (Players)
- Bennion Kearny, £12.99 Reviewed by Chris Dean From WSC 371, January 2018 Buy the book This account of Bob Booker’s 33 years in the game at Brentford, Sheffield United and Brighton is a lovingly ...
- Created on 02 January 2018
- 46. The best and worst moments of 2017 ~ part two
- (Stories)
- ... whole stands were closed and concessions continued to not exist for children and senior citizens. Is that enough? Matthew Rudd ~~~~~~~~~~ Best Fulham’s 5-4 win at Sheffield United in November was the most ...
- Created on 26 December 2017
- 47. "And Smith must score" – the worst misses are the ones that truly mattered
- (Stories)
- ... City, who lost 1-0 and haven’t reached the Cup final since. And when the Arsenal keeper dropped the ball at his feet in 1936, England winger Bobby Barclay hit it straight back to him. Sheffield United ...
- Created on 20 November 2017
- 48. Life during wartime: how the Second World War exposed football’s regional divides
- (Stories)
- ... Some clubs made extensive use of the system. Notts County faced Sheffield United with no fewer than ten guests in March 1943 and Aldershot and Northampton Town fielded complete teams of guests on ...
- Created on 08 November 2017
- 49. Remembering when Pierre van Hooijdonk went AWOL from Nottingham Forest
- (Stories)
- ... not been reinforced and Van Hooijdonk wasn’t slow to make his feelings known. Pausing only to recommend the club sign his international colleague Wim Jonk (who subsequently joined Sheffield Wednesday instead) ...
- Created on 19 October 2017
- 50. Tribute to Les Mutrie – Hull City’s scoring sensation plucked from non-League
- (Stories)
- ... g season, with Edwards now back at Sheffield United, Mutrie plundered 27 in a remarkable campaign that saw him score 14 goals (including four against Hartlepool) in nine consecutive league games. Not ev ...
- Created on 04 October 2017
