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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 Kettering 8-0. The two Manchester clubs both had troubled times – United defeated Brighton 1-0, but had Billy Meredith sent off for allegedly kneeing an opponent. City went down 4-3 at home to Tottenham and the club directors announced an investigation that a number of players had demanded illegal bonuses if they had won, inferring that they may not have tried their best in the match.
Top five gates were Newcastle United vs. Clapton (£823; 22,000), Sheffield United vs. Sunderland (£809; 23,575), Hull City vs. Chelsea (£775; 18,100), Wolves vs. Crystal Palace (£770; 18,653), Croydon Common vs. Woolwich Arsenal (£694; 20,000).
In non-League football in the North West, Macclesfield defeated New Mills 1-0 in a Manchester League fixture. Over in the Lancashire Combination Division 1, Accrington Stanley went down 4-1 at Blackburn Reserves, while in Division 2 Barrow beat Pendlebury 3-1 and Rochdale lost 5-1 at Turton.
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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 on Saturday next. There were, however, weaknesses in almost every department in the game at Ayresome Park, and including, as the Southern League team does, so many players who have made their mark in First League football, it is certain that the United will have to improve vastly on its latest performance if a place in the second round is to be secured. Neither Duckworth nor Bell, the Manchester wing half-backs, played particularly well, while Roberts met a stiff customer in Hall, who got through on two occasions, and with a little luck would have accomplished the “hat-trick.” The failure of Picken at centre in the Preston match led to Berry being given a chance, but he met with very little more success, and with Halse not available the reappearance of James Turnbull will, in the circumstances, be exceedingly welcome. Operating behind half-backs that repeatedly failed to stop the eager Middlesbrough forwards, Stacey and Hayes were at a great disadvantage, but, like Moger, they held their ground until some twenty-five minutes from the close, when the United was simply routed. For sixty-five minutes Moger’s work was excellent, but subsequently he erred slightly on two occasions, and Middlesbrough profited in the shape of goals. Except for some brilliant work by Meredith and a number of good centres by Wall, the Manchester forwards were ineffective. It is perhaps for the first time in their history that the champions’ goal has capitulated three times in five minutes as it did at Ayresome Park on Saturday.
Two other local results that day, both in the First Division of the Lancashire Combination were Accrington Stanley 6, Atherton 2; Blackpool Reserves 3, Carlisle United 0.
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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 battle for European supremacy in the early 1930s; Bolton’s FA Cup final success over Manchester United in 1958; the first Continental tour to England; some thoughts on match attendances.
You can obtain a copy by sending a cheque for £4.50 payable to ‘Soccer History Limited’ to 26 Saxon Street, Lincoln, LN1 3HN or by making a payment through the Paypal link on www.soccer-history.co.uk and contacting me by email to confirm this.
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Tags: Latest issue, Issue 21
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 football referee. The prosecution was at the instance of the London Football Association.
A match was being played at Chingford on November 7, and a foul took place which was not observed by the referee owing to a crowd of players in front of the goal. It was alleged the defendant Chiswell ran up to the referee exclaiming, “Did you see it? I will kill you,” and struck him in the mouth, knocking him down and loosening one of his teeth, and that subsequently the defendant Frost also knocked him down, saying, “Let’s down him.”
For the defence it was absolutely denied that any assault took place, and it was stated that the complainant was only on the ground once, and that was because he was knocked down through another man being accidentally pushed against him.
The Bench decided to convict, and fined defendants 30s each and costs, or fourteen days.”
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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 the greatest diffciulty in controlling the ball. In the Irish team Foy, of Cliftonville, took the place of Seymour, but the English amateurs took the field as announced. For the first few minutes play went somewhat in favour of the Irishmen, but then Stapley should, from a centre by Hardman, have scored for England. The Glossop man, however, blundered badly, and with the game transferred to the other end Lemoine had an awkward shot to save from Webb. Soon afterwards Woodward, falling heavily, had to leave the field. He returned later, but was limping a good deal, and went outside right, Berry taking the inside position. For a time there was little to choose between the sides, and twenty minutes passed without any score. Gradually the greater cleverness of the Englishmen began to assert itself, and inside half an hour Porter gave the visitors the lead. This success was promptly followed by other goals from Stapley and Porter. For the most part, however, the football pertained to no particular excellence, and, rain falling heavily, the spectators could have obtained little enjoyment from the contest. Half-time arrived with the game standing: England 3 goals; Ireland 0. On resuming the Englishmen were still greatly handicapped through the injury sustained by Woodward, who, though keeping his place on the field, was of little use to his side. For all that the visitors showed themselves much the more skilful combination, the Irishmen on the heavy turf appearing to small advantage. In little more than a quarter of an hour Stapley put on a fourth point for the English Amateurs and some time later the same player secured a further goal. Less than ten minutes from the finish Webb scored for Ireland.”
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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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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, Dundee Wanderers 2; Lochgelly United 2, Dundee A 3; Montrose 0, East Fife 2.
The leading four clubs in the table were: Kirkcaldy United (P9, Pts 13); Dunfermline Athletic (P8, Pts 12); St Johnstone (P8, Pts 11), Dundee A (P9, Pts 11).
Two Northern League clubs were engaged in the fifth round of the Qualifying Cup resulting as follows: Brechin City 0, West Calder Swifts 0 (Gate £23, a record); St Johnstone 1, Ayr Parkhouse 1 (Gate £85).
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Tags: 100 Years Ago, 1908, Arbroath, Brechin City, Dunfermline Athletic, East Fife, Forfar Athletic, Montrose, St Johnstone
