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Issue 23
Issue 23 has now been signed off with the printer and I am just waiting to receive the copies. The main articles are on the following subjects: Singing at the Vetch Field in the 1920s; The evolution of football reporting on local radio by Colin Slater; A statistical record of Scotland’s Regional League (West) for [...]
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More on mascots
Some more information on 1920s club mascots. Nottingham Forest had a donkey as a mascot in the mid-1920s. The players had been training alongside the River Trent one day when they saw a group of workmen beating the animal to try and make it pull a barge. They saved the animal, paying a sovereign for [...]
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Tags: Football Mascots, Nottingham Forest
24 April 1909
100 years ago today was Cup Final day in England, with the two finalists, Manchester United and Bristol City, both having reached this stage for the first time in their history. The natch was played at the Crystal Palace in front of 71,000 fans with United winning with a single goal, Sandy Turnbull netting after [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, Bristol City, Cup Final, FA Cup, Manchester United, Sandy Turnbull
Issue 22
Issue 22 has now been finalised and includes the following articles: Football and Community Singing, how Abide with me became associated with the Cup Final; the story of John Walker, the first black player to appear in the Scottish League; a statistical record of Scotland’s East Regional League in 1939-40; the professional footballer who became a conscientious [...]
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Tags: community singing, conscientious objectors, early black footballers, Grimsby, issue 22, John Walker, Soccer History Magazine, Walsall FC
6 March 1909
Saturday 6 March 1909 saw almost half the fixtures wiped out by bad weather. In fact none of the four FA Cup quarter-final ties was decided. The tie between Derby County and Nottingham Forest was postponed and other results were: Newcastle United 2, Sunderland 2 (att. 53,453); Glossop 0, Bristol City 0 (att. 4,500); Burnley [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, Bristol City, Football Mascots, Glossop
This Sunday, 1 March, I will be attending the Great Lancashire Football Memorabilia and Programme Fair which is taking place at the Swallow Hotel, Preston New Road, Samlesbury, PR5 0UL. The fair opens at 10.30 am and admission is £1. I shall have copies of the latest issue of Soccer History Magazine plus all back [...]
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Tags: Preston, Programme Fairs
13 February 1909
Gangs of young men attaching themselves to a particular football club is not just a phenomenon that emerged in the 1960s. Going back 100 years Aston Villa were affected by crowd behaviour problems, as this report from Birmingham’s Sporting Mail for 13 February 1909 explains:
By the way, I have received several complaints about the behaviour [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, Aston Villa, Football Hooliganism
6 February 1909
100 years ago today Norwich City, then members of the Southern League, went to Anfield to play Liverpool in an FA Cup second round tie and came away with a surprise 3-2 victory in front of a crowd of around 30,000.
Here is the match report that appeared in the Daily Mail for Monday 8 February:
“Norwich [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, Liverpool, Norwich City
29 January 1909
100 years ago today the Birmingham Gazette reported on a Commission of Inquiry held by the Football Association into incidents that took place during the Southern League game between West Ham and Plymouth over the Christmas period.
This how the Gazette reported the incident: “When Plymouth Argyle visited West Ham United to play a Southern League [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, Plymouth Argyle, West Ham United
23 January 1909
This week’s entry begins with a follow-up to last week’s news about Manchester City. This is what the much respected John Lewis had to say in Birmingham’s Sporting Mail 100 years ago:
“Only a joke! – such is the official announcement of the Manchester City directors after enquiring for a couple of hours into the ‘charge [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, Birmingham League
