Archive for November, 2008
24 November 1908
Violence on the football field is not a new phenomonen as evidenced by the following report that appeared in the Daily Mail on this day 100 years ago:
“At Waltham Abbey Petty Sessions yesterday Joseph Henry Chiswell and Arthur Joseph Frost, young men of Chingford were summoned for assaulting Henry Philip Bolden, of Forest Gate, a [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1908, Chingford, Football Violence
21 November 1908
On this day in 1908 England Amateurs played their Irish counterparts in Dublin, winning 5-1. This is the match report that appeared in the following day’s Sunday Times:
“Wretched weather at Dublin completely spoilt this amateur international engagement, exercising a very prejudicial effect upon the attendance and rendering the ground so sodden that the players experienced [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1908, Amateur football, England Amateurs, Ireland Amateurs
The next event I shall be attending will be the Wolverhampton Programme Fair, to be held at Molineux this Sunday, 23 November from 11 am to 2 pm. I will have back copies of Soccer History with me plus of course the current issue and a selection of programmes.
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Tags: Programme Fairs, Wolves
