...the first ever winner of the BBC's Goal of the Season competition - Ernie Hunt of Coventry City .   Image: BBC That iconic don...

Image: BBC For years it was the gold standard of football quality. Twenty-five yard screamers, fabulous team efforts, flying headers... ...

Peter Prentice recently embarked upon an odyssey to find out what happened to some TV footage pertaining to England's finest football ho...

The final part of our look at the men who commented on football, but not well enough to sit in John Motson's seat. Keegan, Kevin A...

It's been a while since our last guest post, but we're delighted to welcome Dave Burin to The Football Attic who tells us about f...

Continuing our look at the great, the good and the trying-hard-not-to-be-embarrassing from the world of football co-commentary... Charlt...

When idly passing by an hour or two, it's greatly satisfying to recall happy memories of long hot summers, pre-decimal coinage and the s...

I have no experience of playing non-league football myself. I was always let down by a less than sylph-like physique and was perpetually, ...

It’s time once again to dip into the advertising archives as The Football Attic finds a short selection of British TV adverts that all tak...

It's been a long while since we've had a 'Favourite 5' on the Football Attic website, but it struck me the other day that th...

Way back at the start of the year, we brought you a wonderful video clip (courtesy of our good friend Geoff Downs ) that showed just what...

The concluding part of our series looking at the style and design of TV captions during the World Cup. World Cup 1998 The French have a ...

Continuing our series looking at the way information was displayed on our TV screens during the World Cups of the past... World Cup 1982 ...

At any given moment while you're watching a game of football on TV, you can tell what the current score is and how much time has elapsed...

Sometimes it seems that modern football is a purely visual experience. TV commentaries, tasteless hot dogs and noisy supporters aside, the...