The Youdan Cup is the oldest football competition in the world and it celebrates it’s 150 birthday this month. This day. The Youdan Football Club. The first series of games for the Cup presented by Thos. Youdan, Esq., to the Clubs of the Town and Neighbourhood, will be played this day, as follows: – 1. […]
The Youdan Cup is the oldest football competition in the world and it celebrates it’s 150 birthday this month. Twelve Sheffield football clubs entered the first round, played on the 16th of February 1867 and the final was on March 5th between Hallam FC and Norfolk FC with Hallam winning by two rouges to nil. […]
At the present moment in the breathless premier league title race between the Foxes and the Spurs I liked the piece of research that I discovered today that the Foxes were the first association football club that ever played at White Hart Lane in 1887; twelve years before Spurs and to add insult to injury they played […]
Nottinghamshire Guardian – Friday 02 February 1866
A match report from Bell’s Life in London and Sporting Chronicle – Saturday 13 January 1866 where the boys from Westminster find the ball surprisingly light and un-cheese like!
The Sportsman – Saturday 02 December 1865
LEEDS FOOTBALL CLUB. – On Monday last, fourteen members of the above club went to Sheffield to play fifteen of the Norfolk Football Club in that town. Mr G. F. Curzon, of the Leeds Express, and Mr. W. Skinner president of the Norfolk Club, were the respective umpires. The match was played in Norfolk Park, […]
Aldershot Military Gazette – Saturday 21 October 1865
The third match in the first ever tour of female football International games between England v Scotland. The first 2 games had been played in Scotland so Blackburn hosted the first ever female game in England on the 21st May 1881. FEMALES IN THE FOOTBALL FIELD.- Woman’s mission, according to some authorities, is to compete […]
By the time the advert opposite appeared, Wrexham FC was already entering it’s second season. Wrexham Cricket Club played their first game ‘at the ground by the turf tavern “on Friday 25 April 1863. In a Wrexham advertiser article, dated 8th October 1864, covering Denbighshire County Cricket Club’s dinner at the Turf Tavern a speech […]
