A Storm of Blades
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I think it’s so players are kept 10 yards back from the penalty spot.Why do we have an arc on the edge of the box anyhow?
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I think it’s so players are kept 10 yards back from the penalty spot.Why do we have an arc on the edge of the box anyhow?
Some of the views in here show exactly why Sheffield often falls behind with these things. It's always the grumpiest view possible from its citizens.
At the end of the day Sheffield drew up the first set of proper rules. Obviously they differ from the rules now as it was over 150 years ago. Even if you can't get on board with that part, we have the first ever football CLUB and GROUND. If that doesn't warrant some form of recognition and tourism marketing at the very least, then I don't know what does.
Anyway, someone's giving it a go...
Sheffield football charity to open museum dedicated to beautiful game
Sheffield Home of Football will launch a virtual museum ahead of a planned visitor centre.www.google.com
The heritage of our football has already been stolen by Manchester, alongside our name. The product of football dominates the world like a religion, yet comparatively few globally know we exist. The Football product today is measured by social media, and how many global followers clubs can attract. ManUre have 36.5 million twitter followers - we have 559000. https://www.planetfootball.com/quic...-every-club-twitter-followers-ranking-man-utdThere's an easy way for people posting on and reading this thread to guarantee the preservation of the football heritage of Sheffield. To guarantee the financial future and security of (for example) the oldest club in the world (Sheffield FC) and the oldest ground in the world (Sandygate). Go to the home games, pay through the turnstile, buy a raffle ticket, buy a programme, get some ale from the 1860 Bar, a Pasty from Anne.
I mention it in that way as I fear there's some sort of dreamy nostalgia about this - Sheffield Home Of Football - nonsense. There's no secret about how you fund and preserve the legacy and heritage of football clubs and grounds.
Get to the games. See you up at Sandygate.
There was a film, set I think during WW2 (not too sure) where in the background a radio was on and the announcer was reading out the footy results, one of them was Arsenal v Sheffield United, could have been an FA cup game.Arsenal v Sheffield in 1927 was it ?
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https://medium.com/whatahowler/the-first-live-radio-football-broadcast...
The first live radio football broadcast | by Brian Seal
Web22 Jan 2017 · On 22 January 1927, Arsenal and Sheffield United played the first football match to be broadcast live via radio. The BBC had received a license to broadcast live …
What an amazing coincidence that someone would start this topic and then someone else would have a recent link to the fact things are indeed happening...Some of the views in here show exactly why Sheffield often falls behind with these things. It's always the grumpiest view possible from its citizens.
At the end of the day Sheffield drew up the first set of proper rules. Obviously they differ from the rules now as it was over 150 years ago. Even if you can't get on board with that part, we have the first ever football CLUB and GROUND. If that doesn't warrant some form of recognition and tourism marketing at the very least, then I don't know what does.
Anyway, someone's giving it a go...
Sheffield football charity to open museum dedicated to beautiful game
Sheffield Home of Football will launch a virtual museum ahead of a planned visitor centre.www.google.com
4mins in, he says he's from Sheffield...A great YouTube series from a Lancastrian
Let me correct you there . That was not a pre-season friendly. It was played in March 1991, with the 1990/91 season still got a few months to run.Not the Harrogate team that are in League 2 (Harrogate Town) but another bit of football history we were involved in although not sure how high this is in the rankings. The first ever game played under floodlights at Harrogate Railway (now in North Counties East) was against us in a pre-season friendly in 1991
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14775085.2022.2094993I don’t see how you can have a worthwhile football museum without the support from the powers that be in the game. Plus 2 football museums 30 miles apart would be overkill.
The other problem is Sheffield’s claim to have “invented” football is like each pub that claims to be the oldest in the world. It’s only part of the story. While the Sheffield Rules were established here, football had been played for 100s of years previously.
A small museum dedicated to football in Sheffield would be good though. Maybe somewhere like one of the buildings on Norfolk Row where SUFC were formed.
Proper knowledge! I still have that in the memory bank if it every came up in a pub Quiz strangely still waitingLet me correct you there . That was not a pre-season friendly. It was played in March 1991, with the 1990/91 season still got a few months to run.
The origins of organised football and the original United.
Fuck Manchester!
In fairness - the 2021 academic paper looking at a sport’s cultural heritage does address thisBehave, there were thousands upon thousands of sports clubs in existence before Needy & Pleady. Cricket clubs and kicky ball clubs (now called other codes) aplenty. N&PFC just copied those. For instance, Melbourne Football Club.
Melbourne FC were not playing the same rules that SUFC play today. Neither were Sheffield FC.
Coincidentally, (Glasgow is mentioned) I'm still essentially on my way back from Scotland v England at Hampden Park. We caught a game in the North Of Scotland Cup and did some football tourism in Glasgow (Flesher's Haugh & Cathkin Park). The Scottish claim is adamant that they (not Sheffield, not anywhere else) invented the game of football as we know it today. Because the Scotch Professors were the first players to pass and move the ball, with their feet, in the way the game is mainly played today.In fairness - the 2021 academic paper looking at a sport’s cultural heritage does address this
“The 30 January 1867 edition of Sporting Life stated that: ‘It may not be generally known that Sheffield holds, or ought to hold, a very prominent position in the football world’. This lack of visibility is still valid in that it does not attract the attention that Cooperstown, St Andrew’s and Twickenham, etc. hold for their various sports in the public consciousness. However, this paper has presented evidence for its authenticity and acknowledgement as the original cultural epicentre and home of football using a range of cultural heritage dimensions. In addition, a number of authors have affirmed that it was the first football culture and FIFA (Citation2019) have described it as ‘football’s first city’. No one place or institution invented football and, numerous countries had their own proto-football games. Moreover, the centre of gravity of football has changed over time from Sheffield to Lancashire to Glasgow and is now, arguably, Zürich. However, its home based on the cultural indicators would appear to be Sheffield.”
In principle I agree, I think Sheffield is certainly in the conversation and probably the strongest claim for the iteration the modern game is based on.Coincidentally, (Glasgow is mentioned) I'm still essentially on my way back from Scotland v England at Hampden Park. We caught a game in the North Of Scotland Cup and did some football tourism in Glasgow (Flesher's Haugh & Cathkin Park). The Scottish claim is adamant that they (not Sheffield, not anywhere else) invented the game of football as we know it today. Because the Scotch Professors were the first players to pass and move the ball, with their feet, in the way the game is mainly played today.
Sheffield's claim is based on one "idea" of invention. The Glasgow claim is based on a different idea of invention. I'm not disputing these first club, first ground claims. I just have a bit of an issue with this big, misty one eyed jump to these Home Of Football claims.
Football's heritage is broad. Different developments at different times in different locations. People claiming other cities have "stolen Sheffield's heritage" .... Jesus....
I don't think I'm at odds with anyone. Sheffield (and more accurately people from Sheffield) should celebrate what the area did, definitely, do for the heritage of the game. And, acknowledge and encourage that other geographic areas also made important contributions to the games heritage.In principle I agree, I think Sheffield is certainly in the conversation and probably the strongest claim for the iteration the modern game is based on.
Yeah I can see that. I wonder if it’s an over correction in reaction to the council seemingly ignoring a tourism golden egg?I don't think I'm at odds with anyone. Sheffield (and more accurately people from Sheffield) should celebrate what the area did, definitely, do for the heritage of the game. And, acknowledge and encourage that other geographic areas also made important contributions to the games heritage.
Instead, it sometimes descends into...
We're the only true home of football that matters. Nowhere else has any sort of claim to heritage. And any city that says they did something for the game is stealing off Sheffield.
Think he said Sheffield was his adopted city, or words to that effect?4mins in, he says he's from Sheffield...
But then later on says he was born in Bolton
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