William Chesterman
Remembers…
Pt 3…
“May I congratulate the working members of the present team on so splendidly sustaining the traditions of fair play & honesty…
(Cheers!! )
…ready to accept defeat, to rejoice in victory & above all, to fight an honest fight without unfair play*…”
*…A sly dig, perhaps, at the ambitious new kids on the block, United, here, maybe, who, by this point, had developed for themselves, it would be fair to say, a bit of a rep…
The original…
“Damned United !”
…‘Skinny’ Needham & ‘Fatty’ Foulke leading out the harder-than-nails ‘Young Blades’…
“ The origin of…
our ‘Club’
…languished in obscurity as the first entry in the books suggested that the Foot Ball Club had been formed in 1859 after sports had been held in 1858…
…around about ‘52, however, a certain Mr Percy had rented for himself a room in Orchard Lane as a teacher of…
Not THAT kind of fencing, silly…
fencing!
…THIS kind!!
Careful, Mr Percy, you could have someone’s eye out!!
& attracting many a Sheffield gentleman to his room…
A gymnasium was eventually formed at the foot of College Street under Mr Percy’s management & one which was without doubt the finest in the whole of…
England!
…Grrr!
