The Rise of the Rivals…
Part Three
& In the Beginning…
McKenzie F.C
(1861-1887)
“Hailing from Kintail & Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands, the Mackenzie clan developed a special fond-ness for Sheffield supplying families across the whole of the Steel City…”
…their chaotic clashes with the celebrated…
Key-Player - John Marsh…
Cemetery Road F.C
(1861-1863)
“…barely yards separating the home territory of the Clubs…”
…being a primitive version of what will come to be, in time referred to as a…
‘Local Derby’
( The Mackenzi-ites win their initial encounter, in the chilly late November of 1861, by a solitary GOAL to Nil…)
Hot on their heels & looking for a little footballing action of their own, came…
hopelessly hoopy…
Heely Christ Church
(1862-1899 )
Key-Player - Jack Hunter…
…who, in 1877, find themselves at blowy old Bramall Lane, contesting the very first Final of the…
Sheffield Challenge Cup
…a Final in which they’ll, somewhat ineptly, end up blowing a 3 Goal advantage to arch rivals, The Wednesday, losing a ‘7 Goal Thriller’ in a clash some 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 along the way, many such a fine game will occur in that particular passage of time…)
Next, Rise of the Rivals , Pt 2…
Norton, Plainmoor & Broomhill…
