The January transfer window is fast approaching, and in recent times it has become something of a ‘bargain market’, with Premiership clubs looking to unearth some cheap gems from the Football League. Here is a look at some of the more likely sought after players from the Football League, that…

In the empty, soulless Northern Echo arena that is home to Darlington football club, a pocket of supporters behind the goal are celebrating with the chant “Championes, Championes, ole, ole, ole”. The travelling Notts County fans have just seen their side brush aside the Quakers by five goals to nil, and…

It is not often a side that have just won the league release their most prized asset on a free transfer. But for Notts County that has become a reality, after star goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel had his contract terminated despite keeping 23 clean sheets as County took League Two by storm. But after…

As jubilant Blackpool fans swarmed onto the Bloomfield Road pitch last Sunday after the Seasiders booked their place in the Play-Offs, over on the other side of the country at Glanford Park, Nottingham Forest fans were eagerly awaiting the results to see whether it would be Blackpool or Swansea in the…

On the banks of the River Trent, Nottingham Forest are conducting their routine training session in preparation for a Premiership fixture at the weekend. The year is 1995 and talismanic striker Stan Collymore has just received a ball into feet with his back to goal in an ‘attackers v defenders’ match. Collymore…

Before the start of the 2007/08 season, one man was ready to quit playing football on the Non-League circuit to pursue a career in sport and exercise science by starting a degree at Southampton Solent University. You may wonder what the significance of this is, but the man in question ended…