Arsenal

July 18, 2015, 1:01 pm

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A football signed by the Arsenal team of 1936. The signatures are:

Norman Sidey
A centre half (which was now a central defensive position rather than a playmaker), he played 45 games for Arsenal (1932-38).

Bobby Davidson
The man who had to shoulder the onerous billing of being the next Alex James. Davidson played
63 games and scored 15 goals (1935-1937) but had the reputation of being a 'difficult personality' and moved on to Coventry City.

George Male
The fullback played 321 games for Arsenal (1930-48) He captained England 6 times in his 19 international appearances.

Alex James
Among the greatest footballers of all time, James was the man who developed the role of the inside forward into something more approaching the modern midfielder.

George Cox
In 2 seasons Cox played 7 games for Arsenal. He then moved on to Fulham, but his career never really took off.

Peter Dougal
A peripatetic Scottish inside forward whose many clubs included FC Sete in France.

Jackie Milne
A versatile winger, playing either left or right, Milne was at the club from 1935 to 1937 and played 54 games, scoring 19 goals .

Bob John
Welsh international (15 caps) half back. John was with Arsenal from 1922 to 1937, making 470 appearances.

Cliff Bastin
By the age of nineteen Bastin had won a League title, the FA Cup and been capped for England, making him the youngest player ever to achieve all three.
He played 399 games for Arsenal having joined from Exeter City as a 17 yr old. An outside left, he won 21 caps. He suffered with deafness.

LesCompton.
A full back and later a centre half, he represented England twice and was associated with Arsenal for 22 years, playing over 250 matches.

George Allison (Manager)
Given the unenviable task of succeeding the most innovative manager in the history of football Mr Allison did a more than decent job. An old school secretary manager with little involvement in coaching or tactics he led the Gunners to 2 league titles and 2 FA Cup wins. In the 1939 film The Arsenal Stadium Mystery, he had the prophetic line: It's one-nil to the Arsenal. That's the way we like it.

Joe Shaw (Assistant Manager)
Shaw had joined Arsenal as a player in 1907. On retiring in 1922 he joined the coaching staff and became caretaker manager when Herbert Chapman passed away. He oversaw the winning of the 1933-34 League title.

Arsenal players on a training walk.This form of fitness preparation has now fallen out of favour.

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Italy 1910

July 21, 2015, 12:43 pm

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25 footballers identified as 'probables ' for the future Italian national team by Lettura Sportiva in February 1910.
The first Italian XI in May of that year featured 10 of these players (marked *), and 19 of those featured eventually represented their country. It seems surprising that Genoa CFC or Torino are not represented.

The players (and their clubs) are as follows:

Andrea Doria

Luigi Marchetti

? Ansaldo

Francesco Cali*

Of the 3 players from the Genoese club only the defender Francesco Cali (who had previously represented Switzerland) attained international honours.

Juventus

Giovanni Goccione

Alfredo Ferraris

Ernesto Borel

Umberto Pennano

None of these players made the international XI.

Club Internazionale

Virgillio Fossati*

Internazionale had only been founded in 1908, and this was the year of their farcical first scudetto. Centre half Fossati was killed in battle in 1918.

Club Ausonia

Giuseppe Rizzi*

Attilio Trerea*

Franco Bontadini

All 3 were capped. Bontadini was selected for the first international but couldn’t play due to medical school commitments. When selected for international duty he had moved on to Internazionale.

Ausonia Football Club was a Milan based team that folded in 1912.

Milan

Foot-Ball and Cricket Club

Pietro Lana *

Aldo Cevenini*

Gustavo Carrer

All three represented Italy.

Unione Sportiva Milanese

Franco Varisco *

Mario De Simoni*

Arturo Boiocchi *

USM originally wound up in 1928

Pro Vercelli

Giovanni Innocenti

Giuseppe Milano

Felice Milano

Guido Ara

Pietro Leone

Carlo Corna

Angelo Binaschi

Carlo Rampini

Pro Vercelli were the big guns of Italian football, and the inclusion of 8 of their players shows how highly they were regarded. However, in between the publication of this magazine and the selection of the first Italian XI Pro Vercelli were ostracised for their refusal to play Internaziuonale in a championship play-off, instead fielding a team of 11-15 year olds (of which more soon!). As a consequence of this the Pro Vercelli stars had to wait a while for their international debuts.

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The club named after a horse...

July 25, 2015, 9:40 am

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Club Atlético Porteño (Buenos Aires) was originally formed in July 1895 as Club Atlético Capital. The founders were Irish immigrants . They gambled the club kitty om a horse called Porteño. The horse won, and the club flourished, so they changed the name of the club to that of the horse.
They rose to the Primera División in 1907 and remained there until until 1928 . When Argentinian football was professionalised in 1931 the football club dropped out of the league. Porteño is now predominantly a Rugby Union club.
Porteño won the Federación Argentina de Football Primera División in 1912 and 1914 and the Copa de Competencia Jockey Club in 1915 and 1918.
Porteño also featured in 2 annual interleague contests , the Copa Rosario (Culaciatti) and Copa Mariano Reyna, in which they represented the Asocación Argentina de Football against Liga Rosarina (invaribaly Rosario),
The team photo comes from the 1919 Copa Rosario final, which Porteño won 1-0.
The stripes were Royal blue and white.

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Artistic License

July 26, 2015, 1:40 pm

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This large ceramic tile was produced by the Spode company in the 1870s. There is some lovely detail in evidence, such as the construction of the ball and the costumes of the players. However, a closer look at the jerseys reveals some artistic license. Is it fair to assume that the rose and the thistle motifs are meant to suggest that what we are seeing here is an England v Scotland clash, played out against a backdrop of rolling hills?
England, of course, have never sported the rose as a national football emblem (it has always been the crest of the Rugby Union team). The thistle is usually Scotland's Rugby emblem, but the Association team adopted it in the 1890s before a return to the lion rampant that had featured from the first ever international. The combination of hooped jerseys (navy and white) and the thistle emblem might have appeared in 1881, but those jerseys were collared.
See also: http://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/egg-chasers.html

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Association Football by J.L Jones (1904)

July 27, 2015, 1:10 pm

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I cannot find words strong enough to express my disapproval. The habit of smoking, once started, may lead to grave disasters.

Jack Jones (1904)

Jack Jones was born in Rhuddlan but grew up on Merseyside. Early in his career he played for Bootle, but his first taste of League football came at Grimsby Town. His talent as a cricketer took him to Sheffield United Cricket Club and he then also signed for the Sheffield United Football Club. After 3 seasons at Bramall Lane Jones moved to Tottenham Hotspur. The fact that Tottenham were then in the Southern League meant that United didn't receive a transfer fee. United were further angered as the club had secured Jones a cricket coaching position at Rugby School.
Jones enjoyed 7 years at Tottenham Hotspur, and was captain of the FA Cup winning side in 1901. An outside left, he represented Wales on 21 occasions.

Jones' book ran to 112 pages and featured chapters entitled The Disposition Of The Field; The Forwards; Half Backs; Backs; The Goalkeeper; Heading, Dribbling, Passing, and Shooting; Training For Football; The Rules Of Association Football; The Football Association and The Offside Rule.

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Spain 1929

July 28, 2015, 12:47 pm

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A splendid photograph from an interesting blog.
Gorgeous strip on the Spain team that famously defeated England at Madrid's Estadio Metropolitano on May 15th 1929. The great Ricardo Zamora sports his trademark cricket sweater.

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Bus Parade

July 29, 2015, 12:52 pm

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The civic parade for a victorious team is now one of the great traditions in world football, dating back to Blackburn Olympic's FA Cup winning celebrations in 1883.
In the 1915-16 season Bethlehem Steel became the first team to complete a National Challenge Cup and American Cup double.

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Clash of Colours, 1882

August 1, 2015, 1:31 am

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When we think of the professional football clubs of the industrialized north that came to dominate the game in the 1880s, it is easy to consider them as being an entirely different entity from the southern clubs of the amateur gentlemen. There was, however, a thread that linked many of the clubs of Lancashire to the public schools from which Association football had developed in the 1860s.
Turton, probably the first Lancashire side, were founded by Old Harrovians (of which more later). The case we will look at here is that of the team that really put the cat among the pigeons by reaching the FA Cup Final in 1882, Blackburn Rovers.

1878:Notice in the picture above how there is inconsistency in the jerseys.

The 'quartered ' shirts and the Maltese Cross motif that Rovers wore in the early days pointed to their (surprising) public school origins. Founder Arthur Constantine was an Old Salopian (Shewsbury).

Shrewsbury School, 1912

According to Charles Francis in The History of Blackburn Rovers (1925) several of the 17 present at the St Leger Hotel On 5th November 1875 were young fellows who had just finished their education at public schools.
The stipulation in setting out the club livery was that a Maltese cross be worn on the left breast This motif was worn by both the Shrewsbury and Malvern school teams.

Malvern College

Malvern College provided Rovers with players such as the Greenwood brothers (Thomas, Harry and Doctor) and Fred Hargreaves.

Blackburn Rovers' strip remains one of the most readily recognisable in the world of football, and was much imitated. However, when their first chance of glory came as they reached the FA Cup Final in 1882 they were denied the opportunity of wearing their famous strip.The 11th FA Cup Final was the first to necessitate a change of colours.
John Lewis recalls a letter from Alcock- there is no evidence that a coin was tossed or any lots were drawn in order to decide who changed kit- Rovers were instructed, by letter. Lewis was convinced that this was a bad omen. Rovers also requested assistance with their travelling expenses; the FA declined.

On the day Rovers wore narrow black and white hoops in the mode of Queen's Park. Old Etonians wore harlequin shirts of light blue and white (a departure from their previous plain light blue).

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Outcasts FC

August 2, 2015, 12:17 pm

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Manchester United during the dispute

Meredith pictured as Guy Fawkes

Following the demise of the AFU there was no organised body to represent the interests of the professionals until 1907. The rather clumsily named Association of Football Players’ and Trainers’ Union (the 'of' is uneccesary?) popularly known as The Players' Union was formed on December 2, 1907 at the Imperial Hotel, Manchester. The main figures involved were Manchester Untited's Charlie Roberts and Billy Meredith.

The The Players' Union campaigned for freedom of movement, compensation for loss of earnings through injury and opposed the ceiling on wages.

On June 9th 1909, the FA management committee announced thet any player not cancelling their mebership of the Union by July 1st would have their registration cancelled.
In response to this threat the teams of Newcastle United, Middlesbrough and Sunderland joined en masse, as did about 150 other League players. Machester United (and their reserves) were all memebers bar 3- so the ban would have hit them particularly hard.

Peter Curran, Labour MP for Jarrow and President of the General federation of Trade Unionists gave the players his backing- they are morally right in every way, and cannot do other than win, and their demands are fair as fair can be. The Football Association is an association of capitalists and the Players' Union is a union of workmen...

Veitch

Prominent in the negotiations that brought an end to the dispute was Colin Veitch, Newcastle United's egalitarian socialist and Chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association between 1911 and 1918.
On August 31st 1909 the FA backed down and recognized the Union. All suspensions were lifted and the players that had been suspended had the wages owed to them paid.

The unfortunate thing is that so many players refuse to take things seriously but are content to live a kind of schoolboy life and to do just what they are told . . . instead of thinking and acting for himself and his class- Meredith

Try to remember that union is strength, and without it you can do nothing- Roberts

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Campeonato Sudamericano de Selecciones 1927

August 4, 2015, 12:36 pm

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Played in Lima, Peru, the 1927 South American Championship of Nations featured Uruguay, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia.
In the 5th match Argentina defeated Uruguay 3-2 (Adhemar Canavesi's own goal proving to be the winner). Match 6 saw Argentina seal the championship with a 5-1 win over Peru. It was Argentina's 3rd championship.
Argentina used 15 players during the tournament:

v Bolivia, 30.10.27	v Uruguay, 20.11.27			v Peru, 27.11.27
7-1	3-2			5-1
Octavio Díaz		Octavio Díaz		Angel Bossio
Ludovico Bidoglio		Ludovico Bidoglio	Ludovico Bidoglio
Humberto Recanattini		Humberto Recanattini	Humberto Recanattini
Juan Evaristo		Juan Evaristo	Juan Evaristo
Luis Monti		Luis Monti	Luis Monti
José Fossa	Adolfo Zumelzú		Adolfo Zumelzú
Alfredo Carricaberry		Alfredo Carricaberry	Alfredo Carricaberry
Pedro Ochoa	Juan Maglio		Juan Maglio
Manuel Nolo Ferreira		Manuel Nolo Ferreira	Manuel Nolo Ferreira
Manuel Seoane		Manuel Seoane	Manuel Seoane
Segundo Luna		Segundo Luna		Raimundo Orsi

The squad featured 2 future World Cup winners- Luis Monti and Mumo Orsi- although the pair were representing Italy when they won this honour in 1934.

The goals were shared by:

Luna-3

Carricaberry-3

Recanattini-2

Seoane- 2

Ferreira- 2

Maglio-2

Own goals- 1

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A New Season, time for a break...

August 7, 2015, 12:59 am

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A new season is upon us. Before The D is taking a 2 week break.

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Italy 1912

June 8, 2015, 1:10 am

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back (L-R): Angelo Binaschi, Franco Bontadini, Felice Berardo, Giuseppe Milano, Pietro Leone, Renzo De Vecchi, Piero Campelli;
front (L-R):. Carlo De Marchi, Enrico Sardi, Enea Zuffi, Edoardo Marian

Vittorio Pozzo had 4 spells as the manger/coach of the Italian national team. His first period in charge lasted 5 days, being for the duration of Italy's involvement in the 1912 Olympic Games at Stockholm.
Here are the teams that Pozzo fielded in Italy's 3 games.

Campelli (Internazionale)	Campelli	Campelli
Binaschi (Pro Vercelli)	De Vecchi	De Vecchi
De Vecchi (Milan C&FC)	Valle (Pro Vercelli)	Valle
De Marchi (Torino) *	Binaschi	Binaschi
Milano (c) (Pro Vercelli)	Milano (c)	Milano (c)
Leone (Pro Vercelli)	Leone	Leone
Zuffi (Torino)	Bontadini	Zuffi
Bontadini (Internazionale)	Berardo	Bontadini
Berardo (Pro Vercelli)	Sardi	Berardo
Sardi (Andrea Doria)	Barbesino (Casale)	Barbesino
Mariani (Genoa C&FC)	Mariani	Mariani
di Popolo (Torino)*

*di Popolo replaced De Marchi at half time.

In the opening game Italy lost 3-2 to Finland in extra time. Italy's goalscorers were Bontadini (1-1:10 min) and Sardi (1-2:25min).

Italy then beat Sweden 1-0 in the consolation tournament (Bontaini the scorer).

Pozzo in conference with William Garbutt (centre)

In the next match they met Jimmy Hogan's Austria and were beaten 5-1, Berardo Italy's scorer.

Pozzo's next period as coach of the Azzuri began in the build up to the Paris Olympics 12 years later.

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Dubious Histories

June 10, 2015, 11:36 am

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Let me say at the outset that I have got absolutely nothing against Stoke City or its supporters.
It's just that their claimed foundation date of 1863 has always struck me as being somewhat spurious. In identifying 1863 as the foundation date historians have contrived to assimilate 2 events separated by 5 years.
I will further anger Stoke fans by presenting evidence that the club formed as Stoke Ramblers in 1868 ceased to exist in 1908 and an entirely new club was formed in its place,

1863

It is an historical fact that football was played in Stoke on February 17th, 1863. It was Shrove Tuesday, and it was reputedly the first time such a spectacle had occured in the town. It was a hybrid Pre Association version of the game, overseen by Mr John Whitta Thomas, the 37-year-old headmaster of St Peter’s School.
It was Liverpool born Mr Thomas and The Right Reverend Sir Lovelace Tomlinson Stamer who were responsible for introducing football to The Potteries.
Rt.Rev. Stamer was an archetypal Good Victorian, founding schools and other charitable organizations (including a hostel for female ex prisoners). He was also keen on promoting sports.
Accounts published in 1963 suggest that Mr Thomas and other schoolmasters were then responsible for founding a football club.

1868

The notion that a Charterhouse pupil would be apprenticed to a Staffordshire railway company at the age of 13 is beyond belief.

In The Book of Football (1906) W.W. Cockbill wrote: Modern football can truly be said to have commenced in 1863, and one of the first clubs that sprang into existence was Stoke, founded by some Old Carthusians – Armand (sic), Bell, Matthews and Philpott.

Armand was In fact, Henry John Almond. Almond, aged 13 in 1863, did not even feature in Charterhouse football until 1867. It was in 1868 that he began his apprenticeship at North Staffordshire Railway Works.

The Field reported in September 1868 : A new club has been formed (in Stoke) for the practice of the Association rules under the charge of H.J. Almond, one of the most prominent performers of the Charterhouse School XI last year.
Note that they were referred to as a new club. There is no reference to them having being in existence for 5 years in any other guise. The football they were playing in 1868 was still of the most casual nature.
The connection between 1863 and Almond's club of 1868 is Mr Thomas, who was Stoke Ramblers' first secretary.
I am not aware of any documentary evidence that John Whitta Thomas had maintained a regular football club in the town between 1863 and 1868.

Stoke dropped the Ramblers from their name and were founding members of the Football League in 1888.

1908
On 27.03.08 6,000 people saw Stoke lose 1-0 to Leicester Fosse at The Victoria Ground. This was the last League match for the original Stoke club. They finished 10th in Division 2 but resigned from the League due to financial problems.
An extraordinary meeting on 11.09.08 unanimously carried the proposal that the club be wound up.
Contemporary press reports consistently refer to the club that was subsequently founded as the new organization. There are also references to the two clubs as separate entities- for example, when the directors of the 'old' club donated £50 to the 'new' club.
Also the 'new' club would have commenced their Birmingham and District League season before the winding up of the 'old' club was proposed on 11.09.08.
Incidentally, the XI who had faced Fosse in April were all at different clubs when September came around:

	September 1908	Played for ‘new’ Stoke?
Arthur Box	Birmingham
Charlie Burgess	Manchester City
Billy Cope	Oldham Athletic
George Baddeley	West Bromwich Albion
Louis Williams	Bradford City
Albert Sturgess	Sheffield United
Billy Williamson	Crewe Alexandra	1911
Freddie Brown	West Bromwich Albion
Jackie Chalmers	Bristol Rovers
Syd Owen	Burslem Port Vale/ Leicester Fosse	1912
Amos Baddeley	Blackpool	1909

Nottingham Evening Post - 30.07.08

Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - 18.07.08

Nottingham Evening Post- 04.09.08

Press reports form 1908 consistently make it clear that the Stoke FC formed that year after the collapse of 'the old club' was considered to be a separate entity.

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William Pickford-Free Britons have queer ways of enjoying themselves

June 11, 2015, 2:51 pm

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William Pickford was 17 years old when he watched an Association game between Blackburn District and Bolton. Formerly a Rugby enthusiast he was captivated by the Asociation game. having relocated from lancashire to Hampshire he was active in local football administration and also wrote on the game for the local press.
Mr Pickford took to refereeing when his playing days with Bournemouth Rovers came to an end.
He was one of the 79 attendees of the March 1893 meeting at which The FA formed the first referees’ society. C.W. Alcock was President and F.J Wall Chairman.
In 1895 the society produced the first edition of The Referees’ Chart, a set of guidelines that elabourated on The Laws of the Game.
Mr Pickford played a leading role in the production of this document.
He held several prominent positions in football;
He was member of the council of the Football Association, a Vice-President of FIFA and a member of the International Football Association Board. In 1937 he became president of the Football Association.
How to Referee appeared in 1906. It comnbines an analydis of the Laws of the Game with an outline of the psychological challenges of match control.
Free Britons have queer ways of enjoying themselves is taken from Mr Pickford's comment advising referees not to be perturbed by the passionate noise of the crowd.

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Managers

June 13, 2015, 11:10 am

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Here are some successful managers pictured during their careers as players.

The player in the centre of the back row of this photograph is Helenio Herrera. The team is Casablanca Roches Noires (1929). As a manager in the 1950s and 60s he won La Liga 4 times, Serie A 3 times, The Fairs Cup twice, the European Cup twice, the Copa Del Rey twice and the Coppa Italia once.

The legendary William Shankly of Preston North End. He guided Liverpool to 3 League titles, 2 FA Cups and a UEFA Cup. These figures mean nothing. His solid proletarian ethics and his philosophy of football cemented his place in the folklore of the game.

Guttmann Béla - Known outside Hungary as Bela Guttmann- the silk shirted dancing master who played at the heart of the great Hakoah Vienna side later won titles as a manager in Hungary, Brazil and Portugal ( he also managed clubs in the Netherlands, Romania, Switzerland, Austria, Uruguay, Argentina, Italy and Greece!) . He won the European Cup twice with Benfica, and his parting curse on that club remains potent to this day.

Sir Matt Busby built 2 great sides at Manchester United, winning the European Cup, 5 League titles and 2 FA Cups. In his playing days he represented Liverpool and Manchester City.

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Walter Bennett

June 16, 2015, 2:16 pm

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It was a different world...

Footballers were paid decently enough, but for most working class pros the end of their playing days meant a return to industry. Some made it as coaches and others were set up as publicans, but they were in the minority. In April 1908 Cocky Bennett was killed at Denaby Main Colliery. 18 months earlier he had been playing for Bristol City in the First Division.

He scored 22 goals in 49 matches for Bristol City, helping them to win the Second Division title in 1905-06.

Bennett had joined Bristol City from Sheffield United. He made 234 appearances for The Blades, scoring 72 goals. During this period United were a consistently strong side, as witnessed by the achievements shown here:

	League	FA Cup
1896–97	Runners up
1897–98	Champions
1898–99
1899–1900	Runners up	Winners
1900–01		Runners up
1901–02		Winners*

*Bennett played in the first match but missed the replay due to injury

Bennett represented England twice in 1901.

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Club Atlético Argentino de Quilmes

June 18, 2015, 2:15 pm

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1903

In Quilmes, Buenos Aires, during the latter part of the 1890s there was a group of footballers who called themselves El Relámpago (Lightning). The local football club was Quilmes Atlético Club, founded in 1887 by English residents. As native born Argentinians the Colegio Nacional students who played for El Relámpago were excluded from Quilmes Atlético Club.
Quilmes Atlético Club, like many other clubs in Argentina, remained the preserve of European incomers. The language of Argentine football was English, and so was the style.
On December 1st, 1899 the boys who had made up El Relámpago founded Club Argentino de Quilmes. The act of foundation records that the name Club Atlético Argentino de Quilmes , chosen as a tribute to the Motherland and our People, was proclaimed unanimously.
Argentino de Quilmes was the first club to be formed by native born Argentinians, and as such was the club in which The notion of fútbol criollo as a distinct style and philosophy of play first found its expression.

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The Association Footballers' Union 1898- 1901

June 21, 2015, 8:03 am

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Jack Bell (Everton) - chairman of the AFU

John Cameron (Everton)- president of the AFU

Now look here, how would any man in business like to have his wages reduced by 25% if his employers could well afford better terms?- John Cameron.

The first Trade Union connected with Association football was founded in February 1898. Given that football was now becoming the Peoples' Game and the majority of players were from proletarian backgrounds, it seems a shame that the AFU wasn't exactly steeped in socialist principles.

It is often reported that the catalyst for the foundation of the AFU was the introduction of the maximum wage in 1893. However, the maximum wage was proposed in 1893 but did not come into force until 1901. Prominent member Jack Devey (Aston Villa) stated that the AFU were not concerning themselves with wages, and president, John Cameron said that the main objective was to enable players to negotiate transfers, rather than being excluded from the process completely. This was a response to the retain and transfer system, introduced in 1893, that effectively gave the clubs complete control over players, even if they were 'out of contract'. The AFU failed in their attempts to challenge this system, which, incredibly, remained in force until 1963.

By 1901 the situation for professional players had actually worsened. The Football League had introduced a maximum wage and outlawed the payment of bonuses. The maximum wage was fixed at £4 per week- a higher sum than most professionals could hope to earn in the League. On this front the AFU was more of a vehicle for the concerns of star players and Scottish imports who, in a free market, would be commanding wages more in the region of £10 a week.

In fact 1901 saw the dissolution of the AFU as many of it's more active members had left League clubs to seek employment in the Southern League (which had no wage cap and at the time didn't recognise the retain and transfer system).
Neither the Football Association nor the Football League recognized the Association Footballers' Union.

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Gentlemen and Players

June 23, 2015, 11:54 am

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I have been lucky enough to play against nearly all the League teams, and have, therefore, met many professionals. They are a very nice set of men, not only to meet on the football field, but off it. It is quite an exceptional thing to find foul play amongst the leading professional clubs. When you meet second-class professional the case may be different; but the first-class professional rarely descends to shady tricks, and plays the game in the spirit in which it ought to be played.

G.O. Smith 1896

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Schlosser- 59 international goals

June 27, 2015, 9:39 am

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Schlosser Imre (Imre Schlosser-Lakatos)

A 21 year international career is in itself a remarkable achievement (in the pre 1937 era only Billy Meredith and Billy McCracken exceeded Schlosser).Only Anel Romano of Uruguay (69) played in more internationals during this era. Schlosser's 59 international goals in 68 matches gives him a strike rate amongst the best ever (0.87 per match).

	Date					Venue	Schlosser	Total
1	07.10.06	Bohemia	4	4	Hungary	Prague^a
2	04.11.06	Hungary	3	1	Austria	Budapest^b	1	1
3	07.04.07	Hungary	5	2	Bohemia	Budapest^b
4	05.05.07	Austria	3	1	Hungary	Vienna ^c
5	06.10.07	Bohemia	5	3	Hungary	Prague^a
6	03.11.07	Hungary	4	1	Austria	Budapest^b
7	05.04.08	Hungary	5	2	Bohemia	Budapest^b	2	3
8	03.05.08	Austria	4	0	Hungary	Vienna ^d
9	10.06.08	Hungary	0	7	England	Budapest^b
10	01.11.08	Hungary	5	3	Austria	Budapest^b	2*	5
11	04.04.09	Hungary	3	3	Germany	Budapest^b	1	6
12	02.05.09	Austria	3	4	Hungary	Vienna^e	3	9
13	30.05.09	Hungary	1	1	Austria	Budapest^b		9
14	31.05.09	Hungary	2	8	England	Budapest^b	1	10
15	07.11.09	Hungary	2	2	Austria	Budapest^b	2	12
16	01.05.10	Austria	2	1	Hungary	Vienna ^d		12
17	26.05.10	Hungary	6	1	Italy	Budapest^b	2	14
18	06.11.10	Hungary	3	0	Austria	Budapest^b		14
19	01.01.11	France	0	3	Hungary	Paris ^f	3	17
20	06.01.11	Italy	0	1	Hungary	Milan ^g	1	18
21	08.01.11	Switzerland	2	0	Hungary	Zurich ^h
22	07.05.11	Austria	3	1	Hungary	Vienna ^d
23	29.10.11	Hungary	9	0	Switzerland	Budapest^b	6	24
24	05.11.11	Hungary	2	0	Austria	Vienna ^d		25
25	17.12.11	Germany	1	4	Hungary	Munich^j	2	26
26	14.04.12	Hungary	4	4	Germany	Budapestⁱ	1	27
27	05.05.12	Austria	1	1	Hungary	Vienna ^d
28	20.06.12	Sweden	2	2	Hungary	Gothenburg^k
29	23.06.12	Norway	0	6	Hungary	Oslo^L	2	29
30	30.06.12	Hungary	0	7	England Am.	Stockholm^m		29
31	03.07.12	Hungary	3	1	Germany	Solnaⁿ	3	32
32	05.07.12	Hungary	3	0	Austria	Solna ⁿ	1	33
33	12.07.12	Russia	0	9	Hungary	Moscow^o	2	35
34	14.07.12	Russia	0	12	Hungary	Moscow^o	5	40
35	03.11.12	Hungary	4	0	Austria	Budapestⁱ	2	42
36	27.04.13	Austria	1	4	Hungary	Vienna^p		42
37	18.05.13	Hungary	2	0	Sweden	Budapestⁱ	1	43
38	26.10.13	Hungary	4	3	Austria	Budapest^Q
39	31.05.14	Hungary	5	1	France	Budapestⁱ
40	19.06.14	Sweden	1	5	Hungary	Solna ⁿ	1	44
41	21.06.14	Sweden	1	1	Hungary	Solna ⁿ	1	45
42	04.10.14	Hungary	2	2	Austria	Budapestⁱ	1	46
43	08.11.14	Austria	1	2	Hungary	Vienna^p
44	05.05.15	Hungary	2	5	Austria	Budapest^Q
45	30.05.15	Austria	1	2	Hungary	Vienna^p	1	47
46	03.10.15	Austria	4	2	Hungary	Vienna^p	1	48
47	07.11.15	Hungary	6	2	Austria	Budapestⁱ		48
48	04.06.16	Hungary	2	1	Austria	Budapest^Q	1	49
49	01.10.16	Hungary	2	3	Austria	Budapestⁱ		49
50	05.11.16	Austria	3	3	Hungary	Vienna^p	1	50
51	06.05.17	Austria	1	1	Hungary	Vienna^p	1	51
52	03.06.17	Hungary	6	2	Austria	Budapest^Q	2	53
53	15.07.17	Austria	1	4	Hungary	Vienna^p	1	54
54	07.10.17	Hungary	2	1	Austria	Budapestⁱ
55	04.11.17	Austria	1	2	Hungary	Vienna^p
56	14.04.18	Hungary	2	0	Austria	Budapest^Q	1	55
57	12.05.18	Hungary	2	1	Switzerland	Budapest^Q	1	56
58	02.06.18	Austria	0	2	Hungary	Vienna^p	1	57
59	06.10.18	Austria	0	3	Hungary	Vienna^p
60	09.11.19	Hungary	3	2	Austria	Budapest^Q
61	24.10.20	Germany	1	0	Hungary	Berlin ^R
62	24.04.21	Austria	4	1	Hungary	Vienna ^S
63	05.06.21	Hungary	3	0	Germany	Budapest^Q	1	58
64	06.11.21	Hungary	4	2	Sweden	Budapestⁱ	1	59
65	18.12.21	Hungary	1	0	Poland	Budapest^Q
66	06.06.26	Hungary	2	1	Czechoslovakia	Budapestⁱ
67	14.11.26	Hungary	3	1	Sweden	Budapestⁱ
68	10.04.27	Austria	6	0	Hungary	Vienna ^d

Venues:
^a Slavia Stadion	^g Arena Civica	^{n ,} Råsunda
^bMillenáris Sportpálya	^hHardau Velodrome	^o Sokolniki Sports Club
^cRapid Platz	ⁱÜllői úti Stadion	^pWAC Platz
^dHohe Warte	^jMTV 79 Platz	^QHungária körúti stadion
^eCricketer Platz	^k Valhalla Idrottsplats	^RGrunewaldstadion
^fStade du Cercle Athlétique de Paris	^LFrogner	^sSimmeringer
^fStade du Cercle Athlétique de Paris	^M Olympiastadion	^sSimmeringer