....and it was the Villa to blame
It was 125 years ago on Saturday, on 2 March 1888, that William McGregor, then the president of Aston Villa, wrote a letter to a small group of other football clubs, floating the idea that they should organise a league
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Mind you, if we believe the popular press, football started in 1992
125 years ago.......football as we know it started
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Re: 125 years ago.......football as we know it started
We'd been going for 15 years by then.
Les Randle had already had one testimonial.
Les Randle had already had one testimonial.
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Re: 125 years ago.......football as we know it started
My point being that it was the point at which league competions started. Previously there was the FA Challenge Cup, County Senior Cups and friendly matches by mutual arrangement between clubs.
When he gets online Zeezze will probably tell us more. He was at the original meeting I believe
When he gets online Zeezze will probably tell us more. He was at the original meeting I believe
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Re: 125 years ago.......football as we know it started
Noggin wrote:
Mind you, if we believe the popular press, football started in 1992
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Re: 125 years ago.......football as we know it started
Does that mean it'll be our 150th in 10 years?YeltzDoc wrote:We'd been going for 15 years by then.