Before The 'D'...Association Football around the world, 1863-1937.

Full back Donald Bell was on the books at Newcastle United as an amateur in 1910-11 but didn't make a first team appearance. In 191...

Enoch West signed for Sheffield United as a 17 year old, but he failed to break into the first team and returned to minor football. 2 y...

Jimmy Speirs was an inside left who was born in Glasgow. He represented Scotland in 1 international (against Wales in 1908).  He played fo...

The football authorities came in for a great deal of criticism when play continued following the outbreak of war in 1914. There was n...

Jack Thomas was born in County Durham. He played for Brighton and Hove Albion in the Southern League before joining Newcastle United for ...

Turin, 31.01.15- Italy 3- Switzerland 1. European International Football 1914-1919 The Central Powers Austria played 22 matches...

The Dunn Cup  was introduced  in 1903  for clubs for former Public Schoolboys, and   Old Carthusians enjoyed a good run of success (they ...

On Saturday Swansea City travel to Blackburn Rovers in the 4th round of The FA Cup. When the 2 met in January 1915 for a first roun...

The  East Surrey  Regiment,  Kolkata , 1890. It's never particularly cool in  Kolkata - about 25C in December and January, so t...

22 French internationals died during  World War I : René Camard  -  Association Sportive Francais Paris  (08.02.87- 16.03.15)  The...

As we have seen elsewhere, Association football had a tough time in the early part of the 1914-18 War, the governing bodies roundly critici...