The Sheffield Foot Ball Club…
1860… Contest the World’s first ‘proper’ game of Football, the frosty Boxing Day bonanza against the freshly formed, just for the occasion…
Hallam & Stumperlowe Club
“…a (mostly…)good natured contest…”
(…with, of course, the obligatory good old fashioned snowball fight thrown in for jolly good measure…)
1865… The ‘Club’ start the new year by taking part in Football’s first Inter-City club match…
…which will ultimately finish…
Nottingham
0-1
Sheffield
1866… Issue a challenge to the…
…soon to be known as Notts County, it’s this one day’s legendary outfit’s first ever fixture…
…to a ‘Friendly’ under the Southern Association’s rules at Battersea Park - The cocky* ‘Cockneys’ accept & with Sheffield’s forwards constantly being penalised for…
London Football Association
Off-Side!!!
…run out rather worthy…
2-0
…winners !
The series between, far & away the two most influential of the legion of English Associations, will endure as a large part of the English Footballing calendar until 1879 - Sheffield will end up winning 9, losing 9, while drawing 3 of them - They’ll score 44 Goals! while conceding just the 38…
…coming soon, one from Bramall Lane, 1873…
Sheffield F.A XI v London F.A XI
*…bunch of ‘cocks’…
