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

Athletic News 04.04.83 Manchester United, 1909 Blackburn Rovers, 1928 As the first non-metropolitan team to triumph ...

29.11.90 Plenty of animation behind the goal at Anfield. Not much sign of life in the Blackburn defence though. Fred Geary played 100 g...

There's always one isn't there? In this case it appears to be Arthur Cowell, on the extreme right. I've checked other Rovers ...

Ned Doig joined Blackburn from Arbroath in 1889. His only appearance for Rovers was a 9-1 win over Notts County.  Doig made his debut for...

Spot the Ball competitions used to be very popular, appearing on the back pages of most newspapers, with large cash prizes on offer.  To m...

Blackburn Rovers 1891: Back: Tom Brandon, Rowland Pennington, John Barton, Jack Southworth, George Dewar, Jimmy Forrest; Front:Joe Lof...

When we think of the professional football clubs of the industrialized north that came to dominate the game in the 1880s, it is easy to cons...

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...

A curious memento. And for tissue paper to survive 100 years... Described as follows in an auction catalogue: 1910 F.A. Cup third roun...

Following James Reddie Lang's spell with The Wednesday in 1876 the next examples of Scottish players moving to England in order to p...

When the Football League was founded in 1888 it is remarkable that, despite the ascendancy of Lancashire football,  there was no side from M...