Month: September 2013

by Tony Attwood The United League was a 19th century league set up for clubs to get a few more matches out of the season, in addition to their commitments to the Football League, Southern League or other similar Leagues in which they played. Clubs played their first team players in the United League games, …

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The season 2012/13 started off with a tedious match.  Song and van Persie had gone and we started with an Arsenal 0 Sunderland 0. The we had Stoke 0 Arsenal 0The third game saw us away to Liverpool.  Here’s what Gfor60 said at the time… Liverpool 0 Arsenal 2 That was a lot of fun. …

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Fergus Hunt was born is 1876.  Sadly he is one of those players of whom nothing is known outside his work in football.  There are no details of his career, his family life, nor even of the year of his death.  If you know any details please add a comment. Fergus started out with Mexborough …

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