Everything is bigger in Texas. Even for Big Ron and Big Jack. “One of the first things we did was get those great big JR Ewing cowboy hats,” Ron Atkinson tells The Football Faithful, chuckling at the memory of his time spent in Dallas with close friend Jack Charlton. This …

Mediocrity beckoned and Gary McAllister was ready to embrace it. Lifting the First Division title with Leeds United in 1992 – prior to the formation of the Premier League – was a distant memory when he signed for Coventry City in the summer of ’96. The Scot was captain for …

First came the phone call, then a fruit basket. Both were appreciated by Jason Wilcox as he lay prone in a hospital bed. With his right leg in a brace and doubts about a future in the game rattling around his head, the hours after surgery on his ruptured cruciate …

Every time Ian Holloway goes to the toilet at home he is reminded of Les Ferdinand. Hanging proudly on the wall is a plaque with a simple message: “The secret to having it all is knowing that you already do.” Those words take Holloway, now a veteran manager, back to …