The Time Vault Soccer universe is about to get bigger… oooer! You see in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friends. Those who have won the football world cup and those who haven’t… Oh, these boys have. Bobby Charlton, Jack Charlton, Alan Ball, Bobby Moore, Nobby Stiles, Ray Wilson, George Cohan, Martin Peters, […]
Tottenham Hotspurs’ highest ever goalscorer with 266 goals, the highest goalscorer in the history of English top-flight football with 357 goals, and has also scored more hat-tricks (six) for England than anyone else… ever! An instinctive goal scorer whose speed in thought and deed made up for any lack of size and power making the […]
The 1970’s squad… smells like victory. Take the field with Pele, Beckenbauer, Charlie George and Tarantini and put it right up the 50’s, 60’s and 80’s. Believe you can handle the great, good and interesting from the 1970’s? Then amble on over to the Time Vault Soccer tabletop football card game SHOP and get your […]
Ranked as the greatest player in Tottenham Hotspur F.C’s history by The Times in 2009, Danny Blanchflower captained Spurs during their double-winning season of 1960-61. Adding to this triumph in 1962, Danny led Spurs to FA Cup victory against Burnley, scoring a penalty in the process. In 1963 he skippered Tottenham to glory in the […]
The first ever winner of the European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d’Or) and the Football Writers’ Association Footballer of the year awards Stanley Matthews is regarded as one of the wonders of the game of football. In a career spanning 35 years, Stanley Matthews put in close to 700 league appearances for Stoke City […]
Meet the 1960’s squad… I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he play Greavsie twice or only once’? Well to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I kind of lost track myself. But being that the 1960’s squad, the most powerful squad in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got […]
In 1952, aged 16 years and 185 days, Duncan Edwards was the youngest player to appear in the English First Division. In under five playing years he was the driving force behind Manchester United winning two league championships and reaching the European Cup semi final. Tragically, Duncan was lost to his family, friends and the […]
The first overseas player to become the top goal scorer in the English top division in the 1951-52 season. Having refused to join Newcastle Utd unless they also signed his brother, George Robledo went on to form, arguably, Newcastle’s greatest ever striking partnership alongside Jackie Milburn. Born: 14th April 1926 – Iquique, Chile […]
Considered by most football experts of the day as the best winger in Europe, Cliff Jones was vital to the Spurs 1960-61 double winning team that also went on to lift the FA Cup in 1962 and the European Cup Winners Cup in 1963. Born: 7 February 1935 – Swansea, Wales […]
Arsenal FC’s fourth all time highest goal scorer behind Cliff Basten, Thierry Henri and Ian Wright and the clubs youngest ever hat-trick scorer (against Wolves in 1965). John Radford was a powerful, fearless and unselfish forward. Born: 22 February 1947 – Hemsworth, England […]