21st Jan 2022
Object of the Week: Transfers, Contracts and Wages
With the January transfer window closing soon, Uma Ghelani takes a look at the history of player contracts and transfers.
Collection Stories
25th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: That Half-Time Team Talk
Our final game of Christmas looks at the most famous team talk of all: Phil Brown’s dressing-down on Boxing Day 2008.
24th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: Christmas Cracker at the Bridge
A remarkable Boxing Day at Stamford Bridge, featuring eight goals, three red cards and two penalties and late drama.
23rd Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: Seven goals a-scoring
The day Tottenham Hotspur were stuffed like a turkey by a gluttonous Newcastle United up at St. James’ Park.
22nd Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: And It’s Live…
The first festive fixture to be shown live on national television: title chasers Norwich City against relegation-threatened West Ham United in 1988.
21st Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: Man Utd v Liverpool
Liverpool’s 1978 Boxing Day defeat of Manchester United in their own back yard, and the history of a North West rivalry.
20th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: Last Christmas
The rise and fall of Christmas Day football, which culminated in one final game at Blackpool’s Bloomfield Road in 1965.
19th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: Boxing Day 1963
The day Christmas came one day late for football fans across the country: the goal glut of Boxing Day 1963.
18th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: The Second World War
Revisiting football during wartime Britain – including Brighton’s infamous Christmas Day trip to Norwich City in 1940…
17th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: Dick, Kerr Ladies
The significance of the bumper Boxing Day match between Dick, Kerr Ladies and St. Helen’s Ladies at Goodison Park in 1920.
16th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: The Christmas Truce
A look at the facts (and myths) of the Christmas truce of 1914, as well as football’s wider impact during the First World War.
15th Dec 2021
Twelve Games of Christmas: The Invincibles
One of the Football League’s first ever Boxing Day fixtures, as Preston North End’s “Invincibles” took on FA Cup conquerors West Bromwich Albion in 1888.