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

When ordering footballs please mention Association or Rugby... The best ball here costs 9/3*. An agricultural labourer earned 14/ per ...

  The 'Englishness' of football celebrated in the brand name of these German boots.  

1906 Polyteknikkojen urheiluseura  (PUS) was founded in 1903 at the Helsinki University of Technology. In 1909 they won the nationa...

Swansea Town 1912 Very pleased to get a mention on the  fantastic http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/ .

Nottingham Evening Post 28.09.80 Frederick Boyington played cricket and football for a club in Nottingham called Castle Gate. He relo...

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...

This large ceramic tile was produced by the Spode company in the 1870s. There is some lovely detail in evidence, such as the construction...

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...

Ireland, the last of the 4 'Home Nations' to enter the International arena, had been the perennial whipping boys of the British Ho...

The Latest Novelty! announces this advertisment for a Berlin sports shop. Football boots for a striker weighing just 600 grammes- mo...

Richard Daft was a cricketer. His son, Harry Daft, played football for Notts County and was an FA Cup winner (1894). He was capped 5 ti...

In 1874 the Nottingham Forest skipper Sam Weller Widdowson decided to protect his shins with modified cricket pads, cut down to size.  ...