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Arsenal played their first ever game North of the river on the Isle of Dogs (Millwall) in December 11th 1886
That's inside the big river loop bend you see on the opening credits of Eastenders.
Seemingly a response to a team called Eastern Wanderers who were advertising for teams to play against them and as they were the nearest to us, we took them up on the offer, the first 11 and goal scorers that day have never been fully established. We won 6-0.
https://blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/8573
Kind Regards.
That's inside the big river loop bend you see on the opening credits of Eastenders.
Seemingly a response to a team called Eastern Wanderers who were advertising for teams to play against them and as they were the nearest to us, we took them up on the offer, the first 11 and goal scorers that day have never been fully established. We won 6-0.
https://blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/archives/8573
Kind Regards.
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There is some grass from United's 69/70 pitch growing in a garden of Canterbury Rd, Davyhulme.
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Newcastle's 1st home strip in 1892 was Red top and white shorts; Black and white top didn't come until 1894
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Newcastle's official photographer, Gladstone Adams, invented a windscreen wiper after driving through a snowstorm on his way back from an FA Cup final.
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Tied in with OP mes post
Millwall started off in the Isle of Dogs, which is, as Mes says, mostly North of the River Thames...but moved South of the river to Bermondsey, New Cross, to the Old Den They were started by a group of Scottish dockers, hence the colour of the shirts |
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Sorry, that's 2 facts
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Everton winger Sam Chedgzoy forced a change in the laws regarding corner kicks in November 1924.
Earlier that year the International Football Association Board had changed the law so that a goal could be scored direct from a corner. Up until that point another player other than the corner taker HAD to touch the ball before a goal could be awarded. However the new law was a tad open to interpretation and in Nov 1924 when Everton were playing Arsenal at Goodison, when taking a corner, Sam decided to dribble the ball towards the goal and then put a cross in. The ref was unimpressed and wanted to penalise Sam but the player successfully argued that the way the new rule/law was written meant he had done nothing wrong. Then later in the same game Arsenal's Rutherford did the same thing and ended up getting a shot at goal. Apparently on the same day George Harrison (not the fab four one  ) did something similar for Preston against Forest.As a result of all this the FA called an emergency meeting and immediately changed the law to state a corner taker could only strike the ball once. |
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West Ham were the 1ST English club to play a European game behind
closed doors. |
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I can play football better than some of the Liverpool players.
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excellent
n very interesting facts am a norf end(preston) supporter n am trying to think of something they done....!!! |
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PNE were the first team to do the double jas 1889
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1889
ffs ....bit b4 my time |
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Yes, jass, but there are books and stuff you can read about things that happened before you were born.....just a guess, but PNE probably the only club in England ( the world ?) with the words North and End in their name?
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Reg - In Ireland there is North End United AFC Wexford
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There's a Dundee North End FC as well
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Ffs, Dixie, I had a mare there
What about Wednesday, as in Sheffield? |
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Or Academicals, as in Hamilton?
If you come back with anything I'll give up posting |
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dundee, ffs
ware u get this info from preston had a football history museum..... and legends nightclub next door b4 ko back in the eighties was bouncing b4 ko |
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Original Invicibles.
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invverness caladonian thistle...
anyone been to place opps maccie dees in the town centre...av forget the name of the place |
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used to open 7am
back in the day |
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Jass, not quite sure what you're posting, but having a nightclub "bouncing" before the game?
Anyway, not related really but, Walthamstow dogs had Charlie Chans nightclub right next door for after racing fun |
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it was next door to deepdale...
legends it was called a million percent n heaving before kick off on saturdays |
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Jaas. Sounds like PNE was the place to be on Saturday back in the day
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bo0m boomboom
were the one ND ONLY NORF END |
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N BURNLEY was a cracker
when in same leagues back then.... never sheite miself so much going to an fa cup replay years ago, special train from preston to manx road next door to burnley ground arrived to them lot throwing house bricks at the train**** myself,,must of bin 12/13 at the time.... |
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n anyone on here remember
the Set End in blackburn,,,, and the revenge parties/raves proper old skool...??? |
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n am pretty sure
stanley mathews and nobby stiles played for the norf end back int the day |
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Reg, There is an Edinburgh Academical Football Club but they actually play Rugby !
They are the oldest club in Scotland and do not use the word "rugby" in their name as they were formed before the split occurred between rugby and association football in the 1860s. No other clubs with "Wednesday" in their name as far as i know. |
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Liverpool were the first club to have a shirt sponsorship deal in England. it was in 1979 with Hitachi making them the first English professional club to have a commercial sponsor logo on their shirts.
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Arsenal's first ever foreign player was Dutch goalkeeper Gerrit Keizer, joined in 1930 and helped us win our first league title that season.
Towards in the end of the 1940's he brought a load of Arsenal kits back to Amsterdam, Ajax then wore full Arsenal kits for 3 seasons between 46-49 due to a clothing shortage after the war, though red and white were already their colours they kept the white sleeves design. Sparta Prague play in red because of Arsenal, their Club President saw Arsenal play in red (dark red/maroon)in 1906 and brought a set of kits back to Prague. Braga also adopted white sleeves copying Arsenal and are known by fans til this day as Arsenalistas And Arsenal themselves play in red after the founder was tasked with finding new kits after the name change from Dial Square to Royal Arsenal, I always thought it was because one our former players were Forest players and borrowed their kits, but apparently that is actually completely untrue. In a Coventry Evening Telegraph interview in June 1936, Danskin said that following the name change: “It was necessary that new shirts should be bought. It was then that I was instructed to get samples and prices, and as a result we changed our colours to the now-famous red shirts which have been worn ever since.” This original kit comprised a dark red shirt with long sleeves, a collar and three buttons down the front. Danskin also revealed that they were bought from a gentleman’s outfitters in Wellington Street in Woolwich, which should have forever dispelled the urban legend surrounding the origin of our famous red shirts. But instead, it has been incorrectly passed down from generation to generation of Arsenal fans. Kind Regards |
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Sheffield Wednesday were so called because half day closing in Sheffield was a Wednesday in the 1860's . The team was made up of several shopkeepers and associated trades and they played on a Wedneday calling themselves “ The Wednesday Club “
A further unusual fact is they played at Bramall lane as their home ground. Later on of course it became the home of Sheffield Utd who were formed later . United because they were in tandem with the cricket club who needed a winter sport to play. The Wednesday moved to a ground in Owlerton, hence their present nickname , the Owls. |
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PNE had at one time 6 players who won a European Cup winners medal playing for them, can anyone name all of them?
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Re Preston North End Invincibles... I think they were the first, and last?, team to win the league without losing a game AND win the cup without conceding a goal (in the same season).
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True blackbarn, although it has to be pointed out that they only played a total of 27 games to do so, 22 League and 5 FA Cup.
Still a fine achievement, they only conceded 15 league goals (scored 74) and none in the cup |
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Wolves were awarded and scored the first penalty kick in Football League history in 1891
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Brighton and Hove Albion's only national trophy win is the 1910 Charity Shield. They did win the 1980 Jewish Chronicle Cup but don't think that counts.
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BORO had 1st £5,000 or £50,000 signing i keep forgetting , IAN GIBSON
ist £500,000 signing DAVID MILLS to WBA and jack charlton predicted STAN CUMMINGS would be 1t MILLION £ igning but we missed out on that one Wa it TREVOR FRANCIS ? |
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Had to look up who scored the first ever penalty in football after reading about the Wolves one, looks like penalties was invented by an Irishman and scored by one in Airdrie in 1891.
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Might need to look again!!!
Another quick look at the newspapers at the start of the 1890/91 season shows that the penalty kick was introduced in friendly and Midland League games. The first penalty kick took place at Turf Moor on the evening of the 1st September 1890. Darwen’s penalty was saved by the Burnley goalkeeper Kaye. According to the Sheffield Daily Telegraph of Monday 8th September 1890, the first penalty kick in the world was scored by McGinnes of Burslem Port Vale. It proved the winner in a 2 1 victory over Staveley in a Midland League match. .. https://thestrawplaiters.com/library/penalty-kick/ .. |