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FOOTBALL & SPORTS AWARDS
....INDEX

1 Football Writers' Association  Footballer of the Year
2   Professional Footballers Association  Player of the Year
3   France Football  European Footballer of the Year
4   FIFA  Best Men's Player
5   The Alan Hardaker Trophy League Cup 'Man of the Match'
6   BBC  Sports Personality of the Year
7 BBC  Sports Personality of the Year Team Award
8 BBC  Overseas Sports Personality of the Year Award

also...

'DID YOU KNOW' ....INDEX
Football has a million and one stories and just as many facts and figures. Here are a few of them - the record-breaking, unusual and bizarre.
 

1 Abandoned matches
2 Clubs scoring 10 or more in Cup and Friendly matches
3 Famous footballing injuries
4 Clubs scoring 10 or more in a League match
5 Penalties and Penalty Shoot-outs
6 Centuries of League goals scored in a season
7 Centuries of League goals conceded in a season
8 Hat-tricks
9 It's never over until the fat lady sings...
10 This and That
11 Debuts
12 The FA Cup
13 Whoops...
14 Goals and their goalscorers
15 Referees
16 Christmas Day football
17 Record goals scored in one day
18 Those were the days...
19 Football Memorabilia
20 Crime & Punishment
21 Football in the Media
22 Football and Cricket
23 Pitches, and what they have had to put up with
24 The Football Programme Miscellany
25 Postponed Matches
26   Floodlights
27 More This and That
28   Own goals
29   Points deductions, demotions and expulsions
30   Historical, interesting and unusual photos of football grounds
31   Photos of players, managers and fans through the ages
32   Photos of team groups over the years
33 Pen Pictures

FOOTBALL HISTORY ....INDEX
A few stories from the rich and varied history of football.
 

Link Formation of the Football League in 1888
Link Eric Cantona launches a Kung Fu kick at a supporter in 1995
Link Arsenal's record defeat against Loughborough in 1896
Link Arsenal are undefeated in a record 49 League games
Link Arsenal score in a record 55 consecutive League matches
Link Should Girls Play Footer? What they thought of that in 1921
Link A goalscoring record held by Chesterfield for over 70 years
Link 1974 sees Sunday football start in the Football League
Link Dixie Dean scores 60 League goals for Everton in 1927/28
Link Leeds City were expelled from the Football League in 1919
Link So why did Nottingham Forest beat Leicester 12-0?
Link Nottingham Forest have a 42 match unbeaten League run
Link Peterborough  United go 171 matches without a 0-0 draw
Link The history of the Watney Cup
Link The match of 3 halves - Sunderland v Derby in 1894
Link Swindon Town break the rules in the 1980s
Link England v Young England became the FA Cup 3rd place match

COLEMANBALLS.....INDEX

Colemanballs: The art of letting the words come out before the brain is engaged, made famous by David Coleman but with very able disciples in Kevin Keegan, Bobby Robson, Ron Atkinson, Terry Venables....in fact it seems endemic amongst the football fraternity.  

 
1 General Football & David Coleman himself
2 General Football & 'Keeganballs'
3 General Football & What Did Footballers Learn at Skool?
4 General Football & Bobby Robson
5 General Football & Other Sports
6 General Football & The Anatomy of a Footballer
7 General Football & Some 'literal' sayings!
8 General Football & Murray Walker
9 General Football & Goals and the simple things
10 General Football & Cricket
11 General Football & More Other Sports
12 General Football & The Real World


 

     
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