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41. Letters, WSC 251
(Readers' letters)
... Copping, the “tough-tackling” Arsenal and England left-half of the 1930s, while Harry Medhurst, the West Ham and Chelsea keeper of the 1940s and 1950s, is third from the right in the third row from the ...
Created on 20 February 2008
42. Leicester City 1 QPR 1
(Match of the month)
... sandwiches and FIFA-strength coffee. A huge photo of Filbert Street in the 1930s hangs over the cakes, with a Leicester Mercury “press box” (a shed with a huge hole cut into the side) in the background. ...
Created on 14 November 2007
43. The lights are going out
(Miscellaneous)
... years a series of high-profile players rushed to endorse tobacco products. In the 1930s, Everton’s Dixie Dean promoted Carreras Clubs (“Cigarettes with a kick in them”) and Stanley Matthews – a devout ...
Created on 17 September 2007
44. Letters, WSC 245
(Readers' letters)
... sunken, haggard features, he looks like he’s been transported into 2007 from some time in the 1930s. But now he’s hanging around with the worldly sophisticates in the England squad, it can only be a matter ...
Created on 14 July 2007
45. Tournament torment
(International football)
... It is 74 years since Jules Rimet’s brainchild got off the ground, 44 since that of another Frenchman, Henri Delaunay, followed suit. The World Cup kicked off with 13 teams in 1930, none of whom had to ...
Created on 14 July 2004
46. It was my agent's idea
(Agents)
... soccer clubs employed them to lure away players, such as Scotland’s Alex Jackson, as did certain French clubs in the 1930s. Between the wars, little money could be made via endorsements, but that changed ...
Created on 14 February 2004
47. The great dictator
(Managers)
... Arsenal won three League titles during his time in charge and during the early 1930s “The Machine”, as they became known, were considered footballing invincibles, so advanced were their tactics, fitness ...
Created on 14 November 2003
48. Lights out
(Grounds)
... in 1930, spreading to the major leagues by 1935.) The Netherlands were pioneers also, thanks to the Philips Electrical Company of Eindhoven, who installed Europe’s first floodlight towers at Amsterdam’s ...
Created on 14 June 2003
49. Not quite the full set
(Webwatch)
... hard. The blurb for a 1930 game between Read­ing and Tottenham at Elm Park tells us: “Read­ing’s programmes are very collectible and hard to come by, they are also unique as in this par­ticular season ...
Created on 14 December 2002
50. September 2002
(Diary)
... Bolton 2-1. It’s the 46th consecutive league match in which Arsenal have scored, equalling a record set by Chesterfield in 1930. Liverpool are second, moody Michael Owen missing from the spot in a 2-0 ...
Created on 14 November 2002

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