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

Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle - 19.12.63 The Forest Club was founded by CW and JF Alcock.  JF Alcock was a delegate...

Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle  -  16.01.59 A brief dip into pre-history here. We know that the Football Association La...

The earliest games in our list of influential matches predate the establishment of the Association. Before 1863 there was no Association fo...

Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle 05.12.63 The above is a letter from W. Chesterman, the Hon, Sec. of Sheffield Football C...

In the 1870s there were few serious competitors aside from Wanderers and the Royal Engineers for the title of the best club in England. It w...

A fixture list of metropolitan matches from  Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle  ( 27.11. 1869). No distinction is made betwee...