“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…”
…being a primitiveversion of what will come to be, in timereferred to asa…
‘Local Derby’
( TheMackenzi-ites win their initial encounter, in the chillylateNovember of1861,by a solitaryGOALto Nil…)
Hoton their heels&looking for a littlefootballingactionof theirown, came…
hoopy…
Heely Christ Church
(1862-1899 )
…who, in1877, find themselves at blowyBramall Lane, contesting the very first Finalof the…
Key-Player - Jack Hunter…
Sheffield Challenge Cup
…in which they’llsomewhat ineptly end upblowing a 3goaladvantage to archrivals, The Wednesday,losing a ‘SevenGoal Thriller’ in a clashsome have gone as far as to describe as…
“…going 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, many such a fine game will occur in that particularperiod of time…)
