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

7th of November 1896, a match played at Anfield in rain and fog, Ned Doig (top  right) protesting that the light was too dim for the matc...

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...

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...

Between 1896 and 1898 Alex Raisbeck made 30 appearance for Hibernian, scoring 4 goals. In March 1898 he moved to Stoke on loan, making h...

Yorkshire Evening Post 19.01.31 James Jackson Jnr. Son of  the former Woolwich Arsenal skipper James Jackson Senior, James Jackson J...

The FA Cup Final, the first to be attended by a reigning monarch in the person of  King George V. It was the first Cup Final appearance...

Matt Busby's name is linked so strongly with Manchester United that it is strange to remember that he played all his club football w...

 On the morning of Saturday April 29th, 1899 the top of the First Division table looked like this: P W D ...

Belfast born Peerless Billy Scott played for Everton (1904-1912) and Leeds City (1912-14). He was an FA Cup winner in 1906. In first cla...

Introduced at the end of the 1897-98 season, this was a challenge match between the leading amateur club in the country and one of the le...

The Kop, 1906 The ground has now been completely walled in with fancy brick setting, with large exit gates on the four sides as well a...

The only man from the Roma community to play for England. Howell scored on his debut for England in 1895 in a 9-0 win over Ireland. Hi...