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The missed train
“What a jolly fine time you chaps must have, going away with the teams every other weekend!” This was a remark which was often addressed to me during one period of my journalistic career Continue reading
The first international match
This important match was played on the West of Scotland Cricket Ground, on Saturday, and resulted in a drawn game, after a splendid display of football in the really scientific sense of the word Continue reading
The first great football manager
Often referred to as the first great football manager, Tom Watson was highly influential in the early development of three of England’s biggest clubs. Born in Newcastle in 1859, Watson was involved Continue reading
The Victorian Football Miscellany
The Victorian Football Miscellany is a quirky and fascinating collection of trivia, facts and anecdotes from football’s earliest years. Delve into an absorbing world of ox-bladder balls, baggy-kneed Continue reading
Goal-Post: Victorian Football Vols 1 and 2
Goal-Post is an anthology of Victorian football writing, containing first-hand accounts of the birth and development of the world’s greatest game, written by those who were there to witness it. Continue reading
150 years of the Football Association
On Monday 26 October 1863, a meeting took place at the Freemasons’ Tavern in London ‘for the purpose of forming an association with the object of establishing a definite code of rules for the regulation of football’. Continue reading
A meeting of captains
On Monday evening, Oct. 26, a meeting of captains and other representatives of several of the metropolitan and suburban football clubs was held at the Freemason’s Tavern, Great Queen-street Continue reading
Victorian women’s football
‘So it has come at last!’ cried the Bell’s Life newspaper. ‘What next?’ The event that had the paper so agitated was a women’s football match, played in May 1881 at Easter Road, Edinburgh. ‘Several years ago Continue reading
