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Very true 😂

The game was entirely amateur to start with until they could hold back the money no more 🙂👍

Well, they did win the Welsh Cup a few times and did reasonably well in the FA Cup. I think professionalism probably killed the club off unfortunately. 🙂👍

I had a bit of trouble getting the AI platform to accept that I wasn't swearing. Thankfully I use my own voice nowadays 😂

Quite a name that. I had trouble convincing the AI platform that I wasn't swearing when I wrote the script. I use my own voice now so don't have that problem any more 😂

Thank you. I hope you enjoyed the video 🙂👍

A forgotten club Northwich Victoria. Very competitive at one time, in the league of course. It is such a shame to have lost Drill Field though after 127 years. I would point out though that Witton FC were from Blackburn and are a separate club from Witton Albion FC. Albion were however formed in 1887 but did not enter the FA Cup until 1907. Thanks for watching and commenting, I hope you enjoyed the video 🙂👍

Yes, sadly he seems to get little credit for his many achievements. A true legend of sport.

Pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍

You know what, I knew that too and am rather annoyed at myself now 😂 I will change that in future videos. Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting 👍

@@BritanniaFootball interestingly Wellington road is as actually in Birchfield not Perry Barr but because the railway station was built at Lord Gough’s request the area started to be known as Perry Barr and Villa were known as the Perry Barr Pets

Birmingham is a very interesting place historically as it is an amalgamation of a few smaller places. It didn't become England's second city until fairly recently in the grand scheme of things

This is a very interesting point. Many people wrongly associate the word soccer with the USA, when in fact it is very British, it has just fallen out of fashion.

Working on it now. It's taking a little longer as I have been unwell and also glued to the Euros 😂

@@BritanniaFootball I’m sure it takes a fair bit of research. It will be worth the wait and I hope you’re well and on the mend. I really appreciate the previous instalments 👍

Thank you very much, I look forward to being able to release it as I am excited for the start of league football too 🙂👍

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍

Haha yes and what a side Darwen had! Most people have never heard of them now, but they looked the most likely to take the cup away from the south to start with.

Burnley had a fantastic team back then, went far in Europe too, and were on for a quadruple in 1960-61 right up until mid March. People nowadays just see them as a small team punching above their weight. They probably are in today's money obsessed game, but they have a fantastic history.

@@BritanniaFootball Yeah they and Wolves were strong sides in the 50s.

I've been interested in the history of football since I was a kid. My dad used to tell me a lot about teams like Wolves and Burnley. Sunderland were also a huge club if you go back to the early days of league football. They, along with Aston Villa and Everton were the top three teams for a while.

Thank you 🙂

I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching 🙂👍

Thank you very much. There will be more where that came from 🙂👍

This is true sadly. Some people have no idea of how great teams like Preston or West Brom once were. I think even Blackburn have been forgotten about all over again now as it is 30 years since they won the Premier League. Thank you for your compliments and for watching and commenting 🙂👍

Bet they wished they'd taken the money 😂

Me too 🙂👍

Sheffield rules football was a separate code from Association rules football, which was played mainly by public schools. What we call football today is Association Football, which is where the word soccer comes from, the 'soc' in the word association.

@@BritanniaFootball The game we play today is not just the code formed by the FA. It's an amalgamation of 2 codes. Please see my other reply for a fuller explanation. Most clubs played by Sheffield Rules. Pre 1870 very few clubs were playing the FA code. 188 clubs existed in Sheffield playing Sheffield rules by mid 1875 (2 years after this video is covering). There were only just short of 400 known clubs in the world. Half the football being played on the planet 2 years after 1873 was being played in Sheffield. If you include there clubs playing Sheffield rules then the FA code becomes insignificant during the first 20 years of the game.

I should have explained it better in this video. The Youdan Cup and the Cromwell Cup were played under Sheffield rules. I should have explained the distinction in the video better. The FA Cup was the first competition played under Association rules, making 1873-74 the third season of competitive Association football in England.

@@BritanniaFootball Hi it's now widely accepted that the Sheffield Rules are the earliest form of association rules since both codes unified in 1877 & Sheffield's were written in 1858. Further more, they influenced the FA code in Nov 1863 to remove handling and hacking. The FA would have collapsed without Sheffield's influence in early 1867 and given way to rugby. Also, 2 thirds of all rules changes made to FA rules came from Sheffield anyway between 1863 & 1877. If you take free kicks, goals kicks, indirect kicks, throw ins, penalties, the D, 90 mins, 11 a side, the ball size, crossbars, referees, corner kicks, passing, heading, captains & formational tactics out of the game you don't have association football. All of those rules and features of modern football came from the Sheffield Rules. The game called association football started in Sheffield. It does not take it's name from the "FA" that s too simplistic and ignores the real history of the games development.

This is fascinating stuff. I will certainly be doing a lot more research on the Sheffield rules, and I will aim to do a video all about the influence it has had on the modern game. You seem a very knowledgeable person. Thank you for taking the time to explain. I always love to learn something that I did not know. 🙂👍

@@BritanniaFootball I would recommend Adrian Harvey's First 100 Years or Graham Curry's Early Football Professionalism in Sheffield. I have just co-written a Children's Illustrated History of Sheffield Football which can be obtained from the Sheffield Home of Football web site SHOP link. Keep up the good work!!

Thank you, I will take a look at these

Thank you for your kind words. I will be doing more bios and some videos on grounds and teams. Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching and commenting 🙂👍

I might just do that 🙂👍

That's a great story 😄 Wasn't just football that had some strange rules then. It was fantastic back then that so many sportsmen were all rounders, playing football and cricket at top level.

Ah yes, the Lines, nowadays the pitches are in a fixed location I believe, but back then the pitch was marked out wherever they had room. Interesting to note that the Royal Engineers competed in Ireland too while stationed there, winning the Munster Senior Cup in 1903.

Interesting idea. Personally, I'd do away with extra time and go straight to penalties. I'd also do away with replays. What I would do though is introduce seeding to give smaller teams an increased chance of getting a tie against a big club, which helps them financially as well as giving the fans a great day out.

@@BritanniaFootball Penalties when introduced were not accepted by the players who considered accepting a penalty kick to be ungentlemanly and consequently, unsporting.

I think the real problem is fixture congestion. You can't have multiple replays nowadays because of the amount of fixtures it would produce. I'm fine with penalties as it's better than tossing a coin which has been done in the past. I would say though, that there are too many valueless competitions and far too many European places for certain countries. We need to get back to basics in football. It is just my opinion, may not be for everyone 🙂

I agree entirely, one would also recommend that passing the ball must be in a backwards direction and all players be behind the ball and a ruck instead of a free kick!

Ah yes, I knew Sunderland were formed by school teachers but I didn't know whereabouts. Easy to forget that Alcock was from the north east as he went to Harrow and played for southern teams. Thanks for sharing this with me. I am soon going to be doing short videos on players and Alcock will probably be the first as he was so very important in the development of the game. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂👍

Thank you. They do take a while. I'm still learning new techniques to try and speed up the process without losing detail. Still a novice really 🙂👍

Just read the Rothmans encyclopaedia, it's all there.

It's not the research that is taking time, it's the putting together of scenes. But thanks for the suggestion. 🙂👍

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂👍

Thank you

@@BritanniaFootball Keep up the good work old chap. Easy on the meme's.

Point taken. Video is quicker to make without those anyway 😂

@@BritanniaFootball I thought you'd say that. I prefer the scorecard with local image in the background with your talkover. Still, very excellent video. Many thanks for all your hard work.

Thank you for watching, and commenting. I appreciate constructive feedback as that is how I improve 🙂👍

He did however referee the FA Cup final that season, which I neglected to mention 🙂 (commonplace to play and ref at the time) I think I need to do a whole video on Segar Bastard soon, interesting character 🙂

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Great name. Can you imagine him in a back four with Butcher, Fowler and Crocker?

I seem to recall, late 90s, Oxford United's front two were Banger and Windass 😂

Thank you 🙂👍

Thank you. The videos will be out less often now, but that's because they will continue to get longer I would think as I cover more competitions as the seasons progress. It is difficult at times to be entertaining and cover all the results. I want it to have depth but not to the point of tediousness. I will continue to look at the balance as I continue. I'm glad you have found it interesting though and thanks for watching and commenting 🙂👍

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂👍

@@BritanniaFootball What is known about the ancestral trees of Association Football players? Who is the Great Grandfather, of whom, etc.?

This is something I will cover in future videos

It's funny how we don't hear about Victorian hooligans very often. I think the world has always had similar problems. We just happen to have TV and the internet now so we hear about it more. Back then, if you were in Bristol and something happened in Birmingham, you'd only find out about it a couple of days later, and that's if you bothered to buy a newspaper. I have mixed feelings about professionalism. I like the idea of the Corinthian spirit, but I think the FA Cup had outgrown that ideal. We've seen the same in recent times with Rugby Union.

The hooligans were all on the pitch

Indeed! 😂Tough gig coming up against Olympic in those days. They may not have been around long but while they were, they were a formidable opponent.

Thank YOU for watching and commenting. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂👍