Goals and Wickets: Latest Articles
Football’s all-rounder and innovator has his say – A brief guide to Jimmy Hill’s Football Weekly magazine
Posted: 26th August 2015
On October 27th, 1967 a new football magazine, Jimmy Hill’s Football Weekly, hit the UK’s news stands. The front cover announced that this was the ‘First issue of the great…
Category: Football Magazines
Another great day at the cricket – Essex and Surrey deliver a wonderful day of county cricket as I return to Castle Park, Colchester
Posted: 10th August 2015
The middle and off stumps flew out of the ground, one a split second after the other. We were going to win, weren’t we? A short while later it was…
Category: Cricket - Editorial
An attractively produced momento – A brief guide to the F.A. Year Book
Posted: 6th July 2015
‘An attractively produced momento’. That was how the role of the very first F.A. Year Book was described in the preface to the 1948/49 edition (see above). Looking back at…
Category: Football Annuals
An era quietly vanishing – A review of the 2015 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack
Posted: 6th May 2015
He’s got it just right. That was my spontaneous feeling when I read a phrase in the preface to the new Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack for 2015 written by editor Lawrence…
Category: Cricket Annuals
A full and regular account of the Football Association’s activities and policy – A brief guide to the official magazines of the F.A.
Posted: 23rd April 2015
‘A full and regular account of the Football Association’s activities and policy’. Sounds a bit formal, doesn’t it? Then again, these are the words of a national sporting association, the F.A.,…
Category: Football Magazines
