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25.10.13

Ireland's first English based players

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For the match against Wales at Belfast on 4th March 1899  Ireland picked players based with English clubs for the first time. In their prev...
23.10.13

Founding Fathers

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In the news this week-descendants of 'the Founding Fathers of football' attended the unveiling of a plaque at  Wembley Stadium ...
22.10.13

Wembley Wizards?

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England were not merely beaten. They were bewildered – run to a standstill, made to appear utterly inferior by a team whose play was as cult...
20.10.13

London v Sheffield 1866

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The Kentish Chronicle 14.04.66 The Football Association was concerned primarily with the unification of the codes of football and the p...
18.10.13

Teams That Have Won The Football Association Cup - C.B Fry (1902)

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Fry in his Rugby kit C.B Fry  is often put forward as being the greatest all round sportsman ever. It is widely known that he was inv...
16.10.13

Jedermann sein eigner Fussball. John Heartfield (1919)

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Jedermann sein eigner Fussball  (Everyman His Own Football) was an illustrated magazine published by members of the Dada Movement in  19...
14.10.13

Strange days- 10 against 1

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December 12th 1891- Burnley versus Blackburn Rovers at Turf Moor. In freezing conditions Burnley are 3-0 up at the interval. Blackburn are a...
13.10.13

Glasgow Charity Cup 1901

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George Chilvers   is a Wigan Athletic buff who also does a brilliant line in colourizing old photographs.  The match pictured here i...
12.10.13

Bank Street

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A match at bank Street- Newton Heath in their quartered shirts. In 1893 Newton Heath moved to a new ground at Bank Street i...
11.10.13

Austria v Hungary

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1904 The  dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary (1867-1918) was the second biggest country in Europe (after Russia) and the third most p...
10.10.13

Zeki Rıza Sporel

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Zeki on the attack against  Galatasaray Zeki Rıza Sporel joined  Fenerbahçe as a youth, making his first team debut at 18. In a remarka...