March 2011
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Arthur Wharton - Footballing Royalty
On Tuesday 29th March England will play Ghana at Wembley in the first meeting between the two countries. The game will honour the memory and achievements of Arthur Wharton, the World’s first black professional footballer.
Wharton was born 1865 in Jamestown, Gold Coast, current day Ghana. His father was a Methodist priest from Grenada and his mother was a member of the Fante royal house. In...
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Northwich Victoria on Tour
Northwich Victoria official supporters tour bus
Wonderful picture from the even more wonderful ground-hopping blog Reynards Hunting Grounds. It would be remiss of me not post a couple of 3-wheeler jokes ..
A Vics fan was driving his Reliant Robin down the motorway when his mobile phone started ringing. Answering the call he heard his wife warning him to be careful, “Fred, I’ve...
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Brazilian champs or Brazilian chumps? The strange...
Bela Vista FC Tour of Europe 1958
Back in the fifties many Brazilian sides toured Europe and one club who hoped to cash in on the success of the 1958 World Cup winning Brazilian national team was Bela Vista Futebol Clube de Sete Lagoas. They weren’t a big club by any stretch of the imagination though a resourceful Brazilian businessman with an eye for an opportunity organised a tour of Europe...
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Five Fun Facts #1 Scunthorpe United
Today sees the start of a new feature here on footysphere where we invite football bloggers to give us five fun facts about their club. First up is Scunthorpe United fan Nicola Kilmore who gives us five fun facts, and little bit more, about her club, the Iron.
1. Our very name gets us into trouble.
I must support the only club that can’t be written about properly without swear filters the...
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Football Bloggers of the World Unite
I read a very interesting article yesterday called 4 Reasons Why Bloggers Should Give Links. Go ahead click it and read it through. It’s pretty good guide on why it’s a good idea to link out from your blog or site. To quickly summarise, the main reasons why linking out is a great strategy is because it ..
offers value to your readers by providing an avenue to more content
serves to...
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Record all-seater crowds in 2011
A number of clubs have set new all-seater attendance records during 2011.
Chesterfield FC tonight pulled in a record attendance at their new B2net Stadium. 10089 were there to see the home side smash five goals past hapless Rotherham United. This is the first five-figure attendance at a Chesterfield home game since October 1992 when 10362 squeezed into their old Saltergate ground to watch the...
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Northern League Day: Sheffield United
Following the success of Non-League Day last year the first Northern League Day takes place on the 9th April which you can read more about here. I’m hoping to travel up to the North-east on that day to take in the Ryton v Billingham Synthonia game but in the meantime below you will find my contribution to the Northern League Day blog.
What has the Northern League ever done for us? Sheffield...
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Pele at Wednesday & Villa 1972
In 1972 the great Brazilian team Santos who included Pele, the King of football amongst their number, visited England for a bit of a mini-tour. As far as I know they played two games; one at Aston Villa and one at Sheffield Wednesday. The photo above shows Pele in action against Wednesday at their Hillsborough ground.
This wasn’t Pele’s first visit to Hillsborough. Santos had...
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Can you make a twitter team? Sheffield United fans...
This post has been prompted by an article that appeared on the seventy two, an excellent blog that focuses on the 72 clubs who make up the Football League. This article Can you make a twitter team? Ipswich Town fans can (and whose title I have shamelessly ripped off) names a number of former & current Ipswich Town players who maintain a twitter account. It’s a pretty good team but not a...
