…Stay strong, boys, there’s two of them!!
Hallam & Stumps
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Sheffield F.C
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So, just what on Earth did Football’s first patrons & participants actually make of the planet’s foremost Foot Balling fixture, exactly ?
Well…
…let’s find find out!
“Bull Strength…
I say! (x3) To what would one rightfully refer to a bull’s partner as being..?
…Why, it’s significant udder, of course!
…seemed to be the principle feature - The leather lying quietly in one half & groups of half-a-dozen butting each other like rams in the other…”
1904 - William Chesterman Remembers, Coming Soon…
“…It would be invidious, however, to pick out any particular Gentlemen when all did well, but we must give the ‘palm’ to the Sheffield players as being the most ‘scientific’ & alive to the advantage of upsetting their opponent…
Peep! PEEEEP!!
“…The game was conducted with ‘good-temper’ & in a (mostly…) friendly spirit & as darkness closed in on the scene, the Sheffield Club went home fully satisfied with their victory…”
The Sheffield Foot Ball Club
Guaranteeing satisfaction since…
18-bloody-57!
Bloody Hell, ‘ow long !?!?
“…It was like nothing I had ever experienced before…
…the energy buzzing around us all…
It felt like we were part of…
Something Grand! ”
Mr Buckley !
Mr Buckley, do calm yourself , man, ‘t’is only a game!
The obligatory jolly old snowball fight later, it’ll be off home for a slice of flavourful Figgy Pudding topped with lashings of wonderful Wensleydale sauce…
