Madelon

La Madelon was a French popular song of the 1914-18 war.
I do not know how it came to be the nickname of the Czech footballer Jan Knobloch , but he was, throughout his career, known as Madelon.

Madelon joined Sparta Prague in 1927 and won the Czech national championship in 1932. He also made 18 appearances for the Czech national team (1929-33). The image is from a cigarette card by the German company Richard Greiling Zigarettenfabrikan. 

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D.H Lawrence

In The Cambridge Companion to Football (2013) Peter Stead refers to D.H Lawrence as the only great modern British novelist from a working class background .

In his 1913 story Strike Pay, Lawrence describes a group of striking miners walking to Nottingham to watch Notts County play Aston Villa on a Wednesday afternoon. 

It was a good match between Notts and Villa — no goals at half-time, two-none for Notts at the finish. The colliers were hugely delighted, especially as Flint, the forward for Notts, who was an Underwood man well known to the four comrades, did some handsome work, putting the two goals through.

Notts played Villa in a rearranged League match on Wednesday March 13th, 1912. 

Billy Flint was indeed from Underwood. He was a versatile player who represented County 408 times (1908-26).

Whereas Lawrence has Flint as the scorer of both goals, former Villa player Billy Matthews was the scorer of the second. Notts went from 15th to 14th in Division 1 as a result of this win, Villa were 6th.
The return match 3 days later saw Villa win 5-1.

You can read the story Strike Pay here...

Aberystwyth Town Internationals

 Roose

Welsh Premier League club Aberystwyth Town (founded 1884) has provided Wales with 7 internationals (18 appearances). The club's predecessor, Aberystwyth, also produced 1 cap.
When Wales faced Scotland at Dundee on 21.03.96 there were 3 Aberystwyth Town players in the team.
The legendary goalkeeper Leigh Richmond Roose was said to have worn an Aberystwyth Town jersey as an undershirt throughout his first class career.

1	Jack Hughes	07.04.79	Wales	0	3	Scotland	Wrexham
	Hughes had made 1 previous appearance for Wales whilst he was playing for Cambridge University.
2	Jack Rea	24.02.94	Wales	4	1	Ireland	Swansea
		12.03.94	Wales	1	5	England	Wrexham
		24.03.94	Scotland	5	2	Wales	Kilmarnock
		23.03.95	Wales	2	2	Scotland	Wrexham
		29.02.96	Wales	6	1	Ireland	Wrexham
		21.03.96	Scotland	4	0	Wales	Dundee
		06.03.97	Ireland	4	3	Wales	Belfast
		20.03.97	Wales	2	2	Scotland	Wrexham
		19.02.98	Wales	0	1	Ireland	Llandudno
	Aberystwyth born inside left who founded London Welsh AFC and was briefly at West Bromwich Albion (see here).
3	Grenville Morris	29.02.96	Wales	6	1	Ireland	Wrexham
		16.03.96	Wales	1	9	England	Cardiff
		21.03.96	Scotland	4	0	Wales	Dundee
		29.03.97	England	4	0	Wales	Sheffield
	Aged 18 at the time of his debut, Morris went on to win a total of 21 international caps, playing for Swindon Town and Nottingham Forest. Known as the Prince of Inside lefts he scored 9 international goals.
4	Jack Garner	21.03.96	Scotland	4	0	Wales	Dundee
5	William Roberts Jones	20.03.97	Wales	2	2	Scotland	Wrexham
6	Jack Edwards	19.02.98	Wales	0	1	Ireland	Llandudno
7	Leigh Richmond "Dick" Roose	24.02.00	Wales	2	0	Ireland	Llandudno
	This was Roose’s debut. He moved on to London Welsh, Stoke, Everton and Sunderland (among other clubs) and won a total of 24 caps. His association with Aberystwyth began when he attended University in the town.
8	Ernest Peake	11.04.08	Wales	0	1	Ireland	Aberdare
	A native of Aberystwyth, left back Peake won a further 10 caps whilst playing for Liverpool.

Bob Crompton - England

Right back Bob Crompton  played 41 matches for England (1902-14) , he was captain in 22 of these games. The previous appearance record was 23 (Steve Bloomer), and Crompton's record stood from 1909-1952.

He also represented The Football League 17 times

In 1907 the imperious looking Crompton was measured at 5' 10½" and  13st. 10lbs.(1.79m, 87kg).
He was a British Home Championship winner in 1903-04, 1908-09, 1910-11 & 1912-13.

Here is a breakdown of his record:

Overall

P	W	D	L
41	27	8	6

vs. Wales

P	W	D	L
12	9	3	0

vs. Ireland

P	W	D	L
10	8	0	2

vs. Scotland

P	W	D	L
12	3	5	4

vs. Austria

P	W	D	L
3	3	0	0

vs. Hungary

P	W	D	L
3	3	0	0

vs. Bohemia

P	W	D	L
1	1	0	0

Nils Middelboe

Before joining Chelsea in 1913 Middleboe represented Kjøbenhavns Boldklub, Frederiksberg. He made 15 appearances for Denmark (7 goals), and played at 3 Olympic tournaments (winning 2 silver medals).

Click here to view a great selection of images of Danish football.

Billy Meredith

Can't go for too long without a Billy Meredith post!
Happy Saint David's Day to all our Welsh readers.

Raich Carter

1937

His wonderful positional sense and beautifully timed passes made him the best forward of his generation.

Charles Buchan

Horatio Stratton Carter made his debut for Sunderland in October 1932. His career went on until 1952. He won the League Championship with Sunderland in 1936 (when he was also top scorer in the League) and the FA Cup the following season. 
He represented England 13 times. 
His father, Robert 'Toddler' Carter had played for Burslem Port Vale, Stockport County, Fulham and Southampton. He tragically died of an head injury when Raich was just 14.
Carter junior had a trial with Leicester at the age of 17, but was told he was too small to make it. He broke into the Sunderland first team as an 18 year old, standing 1.70m and weighing around 59 kg. 

Billy Meredith

44,000 were present at Bank Street on Christmas Day 1907 to see Manchester United beat Bury 2-1. United led the table from September and won their first League Championship title by 9 points.
Billy Meredith opened the scoring for United in the Christmas fixture .

Situation Vacant

Arsenal Football Club is open to receive applications for the position of Team Manager. He must be experienced and possess the highest qualifications for the post, both as to the ability and personal character. Gentlemen whose sole ability to build up a good side depends on the payment of heavy and exorbitant transfer fees need not apply.

Athletic News  11.05.25