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I shall be attending the Stafford Rangers Programme Fair this Sunday, 18 January, with my usual selection of programmes, books and magazines. The current issue of Soccer Historywill be available along with back issues. The fair takes place in the Social Club at the Marston Road ground starting at 10.30.
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16 January 1909
100 years ago today it was FA Cup first round day (equivalent to the third round today). Surprises included Croydon Common drawing 1-1 at ‘home’ to Woolwich Arsenal (the tie was played at Crystal Palace), non-league Workington drawing 0-0 at Bradford City and Nottingham Forest beating Aston Villa 2-0. Highest scorers were Bury who defeated [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, FA Cup
9 January 1909
One hundred years ago today, Manchester United, Football League champions in 1907-08, went down to a 5-0 defeat at Middlesbrough. This is what the Manchester Courier had to say about the game:
Manchester United is having a bad time, but Turnbull is practically certain to play against Brighton and Hove Albion in the Cup tie at Clayton [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1909, Manchester United FC, Middlesbrough FC
I shall be attending the Greater Manchester Programme Fair, which takes place this Tuesday, 30 December, at the Cresta Court Hotel, Church Street, Altrincham from 11 am. I will have copies of the latest issue of Soccer History (No 21) available along with back copies and a small selection of programmes and books.
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Season’s Greetings
Just a quick note to wish all our readers a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year from Soccer History Magazine. I look forward to seeing you at the various events that are coming up, commencing with the fair in Altrincham on Tuesday.
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Issue 21
The contents for issue 21 have now been finalised and the magazine will be posted to subscribers shortly after Christmas. Articles include a feature on the schoolboy and youth career of Stanley Matthews; the story of Olive Grove, one of Sheffield Wednesday’s early homes; events in Scotland when war broke out in September 1939; the [...]
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Tags: Issue 21, Latest issue
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
31 October 1908
This week we take a look at Scotland’s Northern League, which for the 1908-09 season included several clubs that are now Scottish League members: Dunfermline Athletic, St Johnstone, Arbroath, Montrose, Forfar Athletic, East Fife and Brechin City.
There were four League games played today with the following results: Aberdeen A 3, Arbroath 1; Dunfermline Athletic 3, [...]
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1908, Arbroath, Brechin City, Dunfermline Athletic, East Fife, Forfar Athletic, Montrose, St Johnstone
