Sheffield FC

[Sensiblade]

Just a Rumour from a new person I know (who's a Blade).
That United are going to buy Sheffield FC.
The person is pretty convinced it's going to happen.
I'm not sure of his source's though.

 

[Foxy]

Probably just putting two and two together with our links.

Know a couple of the players though and know pepole who know the chairman, so I'll see if theres any rumour that end

 

[Sensiblade]

I just talked to someone more in the know
No takeover, but we are relaying them a pitch, helping set up a trtaining facility next to the ground and playing our reserve matches there next season (still unconfirmed, but a bit more solid on the source).

 

[ScUzZ]

Did anyone listen to 5 live last night? There was a guy on from Edinburgh who claims they have the oldest club in the world not us! Apparantly there was a club there 30 some years before Sheffield FC was formed.

Missed the last bit tho so I dunno how plausible it is

 

[Kev Gee]

I dont think its legal to do that is it??

Or at least a chairman to own shares in two clubs...

 

[Foxy]

Did anyone listen to 5 live last night? There was a guy on from Edinburgh who claims they have the oldest club in the world not us! Apparantly there was a club there 30 some years before Sheffield FC was formed.

Missed the last bit tho so I dunno how plausible it is

There have been similar claims in the past, however Sheffield FC are currently recognised as the FA as the oldest. I'd guess given that to be officially the oldest, they have to be correctly registered as a club. You'd have thought, if this was the case, Sheffield FC would have never been verified in the first place.

 

[Robbie]

I dont think its legal to do that is it??

Or at least a chairman to own shares in two clubs...

I was thinking so too. However having links with them is no problem.

 

[Hilltop Blade 4 life]

Did anyone listen to 5 live last night? There was a guy on from Edinburgh who claims they have the oldest club in the world not us! Apparantly there was a club there 30 some years before Sheffield FC was formed.

Missed the last bit tho so I dunno how plausible it is

Load a bollocks, they played a game involving 39 players and where you were allowed to pick the ball up!

Four small pocket books and three bundles held in the National Archives of Scotland (NAS) contain the membership lists and accounts of an Edinburgh football club between 1824 and 1841. The Foot-Ball Club may be the earliest known football club in the world.
The records are part of the papers of John Hope deposited in the NAS (NAS ref. GD253). In 1824 Hope, then a 17 year old trainee lawyer, organised a season of games for the Foot-Ball Club he had formed in Edinburgh. During the first recorded season the members met on Saturday afternoons to play a form of football. This was not football in its modern form. The club's games probably resembled the rough and tumble of traditional ball games played in many places. A letter of 1825 (NAS ref. GD253/183/14/12) refers to a game involving 39 players, and ‘such kicking of shins and such tumbling’. Sticks marked the goals. The only surviving club rules (NAS ref. GD253/183/7/3) forbade tripping, but allowed pushing and holding and the lifting of the ball. A ‘chairman’ seems to have acted as a referee.

http://www.nas.gov.uk/about/071112.asp