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

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 long history of the FA Cup only one tie has ever been decided in a hotel. The hotel, pictured above, was The Raven in Shrewsbury....

Nottinghamshire Guardian 10.12.69 Further evidence of the rather shambolic state of football in the 1860s. Newark short handed, unscient...

Sheffield Daily Telegraph  -   04.04.68 As we can see from the result (2 rouges to nothing) this was a game played under the Sheffield...

The City of Sheffield was a major centre of footballing development , and its influence on the evolution of the Association game cannot be o...

The Kentish Chronicle 14.04.66 The Football Association was concerned primarily with the unification of the codes of football and the p...

Crook Town 1901 Crook Town of County Durham took the Cup north again. They drew 1-1 with  King's Lynn at  Harwich & Parkeston...

I don't want to get too drawn into writing about the prehistory of Association football, but it would be unthinkable to overlook the She...