Malcolm Bailey's Football Blog

When  Alex Ferguson  was caught driving on the hard shoulder of the M602 in February 1999, his defence in court was perhaps a tad more embar...

Football On This Day - In 1919, Bill Nicholson was born-who's he?? How dare you!! A Yorkshireman,   he joined  Spurs aged 16?? and serve...

The "Eric Cantona kick" refers to his infamous   kung-fu style kick   delivered to a Crystal Palace fan,   Matthew Simmons , durin...

Matthias Sindelar, "der Papierene", the Paper Man , was the cutting edge of the greatest international team in the World, in the 1...

George Allison (below) is remembered for managing Arsenal to two League Championships (known then as the First Division) and an FA Cup in th...

19th January 1933:  In their second Football League season , Mansfield Town suffered what is still their record League defeat on Thursday 1...

The Italian, Lazio club in the 1970s, had a notorious bunch of players and at a post-match banquet in Rome, on this day in 1977, following a...