“Hailing from Kintail & Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands, the Mackenzieclan developed a special fond-ness for Sheffield supplying families across the whole of the SteelCity…”
…were a very primitive version of what will come to be…
…in time…
…referred to as a…
‘Local Derby’
( TheMackenzi-ites win their initial encounter, in the chillylateNovember of1861,by a solitaryGOALto Nil…)
Hotupon their hellish heels &looking for a littleFootballing funof theirown, came…
(1862-1899 )
Heely Christ Church
…who, in1877, find themselves at Bramall Lane, contesting the very first Finalof the…
Key-Player - Jack Hunter…
Sheffield Challenge Cup
…in which they’llsomewhat ineptly end up blowing a 3 goaladvantage to archrivals,The Wednesday,losing 4-3 in a clashsome have gone as far as to describe as…
“…down in folklore as one of the very finest games of the entire Victorian era…”
‘Owlstalk…’
(…& as we’ll be discovering as we go along, very many a fine game will occur in that particular time…)
Next, Rise of the Rivals , Pt 2…Norton, Plainmoor & Broomhill…
