biffafootie

They don’t make stadiums like this anymore. No wonder it would never get a safety certificate. It’s the fence that I’m concerned about, the stand looks pretty solid. Found this one by chance in the Tameside Archives, and the club is Denton FC in the 1900’s. For those of you who missed that geography lesson Denton is east of Manchester. When Britain had industries then Denton, like Stockport and Luton made hats for people in this photograph. None of this or the club exist anymore.

Don’t know anything about Denton FC except they were beaten by Newton Heath 7-1 in the Manchester Cup final in 1888. Newton Heath became Manchester United and Denton didn’t.

Goalkeeping has got a lot better since the day this photograph was taken. Big woollen jersey in green, slick back hair and arms that look they are trying to a catch a chicken in the farmyard. Note the article for the new “Talkies” moving pictures sweeping the world.

Details : match unknown, players unknown. What I do know is that Gorslas is a small town in Wales, north of Llanelli, so not a soccer county. The magazine is Wheatsheaf (1896 -1964) which was a Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) national publication with pages of local news added for different co-operative societies.

I like it when some of one’s historical interests of football and co-operatives collide, especially when you spot it on the ebay.

Good use of football imagery for the 1924 General Election poster. It’s Labour so they’ll be the team in red, and if you cast your vote the correct way you’ll score a goal. Notice the crossbar and posts in flat planks of wood when you really could hit the woodwork.

This was a badly taken photo of the Picturing Politics : Exploring the Political Poster in Britain exhibition at the People’s History Museum in Manchester. On show until June 2012. I bought the postcard of it.

The poster is in decline. Propaganda, advertisements or “The Circus is in Town” that old paper and starchy paste plastered around town just isn’t around like it used to be. Who needs all that effort when you’ve got the Facebook and a website. So nice to see a football match poster. It looks like an old school letterpress on thin newsprint paper. Well how many letterpress printers are still in business. Thin paper sticks quicker and easier. It is the flyposter medium of choice. But I suspect this is not such said item.

Final score 2-2; attendance 242. Didn’t go anyway.

Love the graphics, hate the Budweiser. Great old trophy, shame about those ribbons. But don’t you just like the lies.

a) Budweiser is supposed to be a beer.
b) They have tickets for 1st round matches - they don’t apart from the Alfreton Town v. Carlisle United tie and who would have thought that.
c) the FA Cup starts in November - there has already been 5 preliminary rounds before this starting in August.
d) This pic was taken from the Skysports website the actual coverage is on ESPN and ITV.

Blyth Spartans lost 0-2 to near neighbours Gateshead. This is after seeing them draw 0-0 at Droylsden in the earlier round. Gutted.

Your studs are showing. This is possibly an international friendly match between France v. Belgium on 16th February 1913. I think this is the match http://www.fff.fr/servfff/fiche_joueur_new/match.php?id_match=567. What a 3-0 win to the plucky Belgians…Don’t you just love les mouchoirs and the bloke in the middle at the back who appears in full dinner costume. Some famous footie players turned out that winter day. Eugene Maes for France who died 30 years later in a concentration camp in WWII….

Just like watching Brasil. A few subbuteo players and this little garden would be complete. I think I’d put some banking around the pitch to give it a stadium look

Duncan Edwards lived here at a modest house in Gorse Hill a 10 minute walk to Old Trafford football ground. New Blue Plaque in place. Once upon a time footballers lived next door to their fans. Lived round in my schoolboy years and this has come as a surprise

Picture of a big cup that any team would be proud to put in the trophy cabinet. It’s the Cheshire Amateur Cup and has been won 113 times and these are the 2011 winners Ashville FC who play on wee ground on The Wirral. Note to diary, try and find out more information. Those Victorian football associations didn’t stint on splashing the guineas on a handsome piece of silverware.