Each season, a selection of big-name First Division players, including Alan Ball, Billy Bremner, Kenny Dalglish, Kevin Keegan, Bryan Robson and Charlie Nicholas, wrote (or had ghost-written for them) columns on their football lives.

This feature continued in the monthly incarnation of the magazine, with stars including Joe Cole and Danny Mills penning regular columns.

The magazine also featured Paul Trevillion's You Are The Ref comic strip for many years.

[2] The weekly magazine featured annual free gift of "Shoot League Ladders".

It was relaunched as a weekly magazine in late February 2008, before publishers IPC sold off the brand in August 2008.