Alan Crockford's handy guide to the Exeter chairman
Distinguishing features Grey hair. Awful grey suits. Grey shoes so cheap and nasty looking that he might as well wear flip-flops.
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Keith Butterick took on the job of persuading Halifax to keep a football club and invest in its shabby ground. Here's how he got on
You have always needed a sense of humour and irony to be a Halifax Town fan. The club is currently on the verge of having one of the finest grounds in the lower divisions and has never been so rich, the recent windfall of some £700,000 after Fulham sold Geoff Horsfield adding to already swollen coffers. Yet we are languishing at the bottom of the League and, at the time of writing, looking for a manager
Day 18 of the WSC advent calendar and we are joining Leicester City’s journey following a star. As they prepared, in October 2000, issue 164, to visit Red Star Belgrade, Dragomir Pop-Mitic reported on the civil unrest in Yugoslavia
“We are ready to organise the match and all Leicester City supporters will be welcomed and completely safe,” said an official from Red Star Belgrade after the UEFA Cup draw was announced. Whether Leicester are able to travel to Yugoslavia remains to be seen, though UEFA have insisted they will forfeit the game if they don’t. The British government may not be prepared to grant permission and the Milosevic regime will be nervous too, since the match will take place a few days after a domestic election which it cannot afford to lose
The government believe the Football Disorder Bill can end hooliganism, Ken Gall reports from Westminster
One of the great travesties of history is the legend of King Canute, who is remembered – if at all – as some kind of megalomaniac who thought he could control the tides. Canute, however, was actually the wise man of the tale, attempting to demonstrate to his credulous courtiers that there were limits to the events over which even a monarch could legislate.
Gary Oliver looks at Airdrie, a middle-ranking Scottish club caught between the Premier League and oblivion
Airdrieonians manager Gary Mackay described Wednesday June 14 as his “worst day in 20 years of football”. From a man who spent most of that period playing for ill-fated Hearts sides, that is quite a statement. For Mackay, the miseries of losing titles, finals and semis were seemingly preferable to telling 27 of his 30 players that a liquidator had made them redundant.