Headline- double picture salute to Bristol Rovers

Front Cover, Colour-Ray Daniel (Arsenal) and Stanley Matthews (Blackpool)

Back Cover colour - Butlins (Football stars will coach during 1953 season)

Other Full Colour, full page, photo of player
Sid Gerrie (Hull City) (First inside the magazine)

Other full-page black and white photos of players-
Derek Lewis (Preston)
Harold Mather (Burnley)
Action picture of Rickaby (WBA) against West Ham
Colin Collindridge (Notts Forest)
Ray Wilcox (Newport County)
Johnny Hart (Man City)

Part page black and white photos of teams-
Blackpool
West Brom
Port Vale
Swansea
Bradford
Slough

Part page black and white photos of players-
Jimmy Logie (Arsenal)

Double page spread, black and white photo-
Salute to Bristol Rovers (Players and action picture against Millwall)

Editorial- Charles Buchan Says.
Are we becoming bad sportsmen?

Articles-
The Fan is the VIP of soccer by Bob Jackson (Hull City)
Talking it over by John Thompson
Spotlight on Blackpool
My Story-Jimmy Logie (Arsenal)
English Team Work could beat the Scots by Alastair Graham
The violinist footballers by Ian Davison
Scottish Gossip
With the Amateurs-Slough by Norman Ackland
How I began, Marcel Gaillard (Portsmouth), Bill Lewis (Norwich City), Jimmy Scarth (Gillingham)
My greatest Thrill, Albert Quixall (Wednesday), Cyril Thompson (Watford), Harry Gilberg (Brighton)
A LIFE-TIME IN FOOTBALL. By Charles Buchan
Improve your game
Who's who- A biography of every Football league player by Brian Glanville
Short Story Bill Holden
Soccer Sideshow

Pools by Frank Barclay

Puzzle Corner

Memory Lane England v Scotland 1927

Boys Only

Readers Letters

Adverts-
Portman Building Society
Soccerette Game
Meet the Test Stars by Alec Bedser
RAF
ARMY
TA
Brylcreem (Sponsors of Goal radio programme on Radio Luxembourg)
Sporting Record
Arthur Rowe Boots

Cartoons-
Smart Alex