The Homecoming of Football

[Klanger]

If, by chance football does in fact come home in a couple of weeks time, I think it’s worth reminding the Country at large that it will be returning to Sheffield, whose rules were largely adopted as a basis for the game as we know it.

If I were football I would be gasping for a decent pint and head for somewhere around Bramall Lane, probably London Road, then a curry (Shapla?). Then I’d go on the pull, I’m not familiar with Sheffield’s nightlife now but I guess a local boy made good with more money than sense shouldn’t have much of a problem.

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Tell us more if your going to boast , give us a clue Neil ?

 

[Harry Thickett]

Sheffield is the home of Association football. I wrote a book and designed a walking app called exactly that:
https://www.englandsoldestfootballclubs.com/sheffield-home-of-football/
So when/if it comes home then there's one or two candidates for the location - perhaps Heeley Parish Church ? - the last resting place of Nathaniel Creswick (founder of Sheffield FC).
There is momentum building with the Council and the football clubs to launch a long term initiative starting with the 160th anniversary of the 1858 Sheffield Rules on October 27th. We are hopeful of an exhibition to show off all the footballing football treasure that Sheffield boasts for that weekend. So perhaps we will find a little space for the Jules Rimet there?

 

[Snowman]

Tell us more if your going to boast , give us a clue Neil ?

Bloody Hell, that is perceptive! How did you rumble him?

 

[Bladesman]

If, by chance football does in fact come home in a couple of weeks time, I think it’s worth reminding the Country at large that it will be returning to Sheffield, whose rules were largely adopted as a basis for the game as we know it.

If I were football I would be gasping for a decent pint and head for somewhere around Bramall Lane, probably London Road, then a curry (Shapla?). Then I’d go on the pull, I’m not familiar with Sheffield’s nightlife now but I guess a local boy made good with more money than sense shouldn’t have much of a problem.

There are enough Sheffielders in the England squad for them to bring the world cup to Sheffield. I also think the safest place to keep the World Cup is at Bramall Lane.

 

[blade too long]

yes nearly a thrd of the current team were brought up and taught football in the spiritual home of football

Sheffield , the true birth placeof what we recognis as the beautiful game

 

[Bladesthorpe]

There are enough Sheffielders in the England squad for them to bring the world cup to Sheffield. I also think the safest place to keep the World Cup is at Bramall Lane.

There's plenty of room in our trophy cabinet for it .

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

I watched Badiel on the Silk Road last nite,and it appears that Football was invented in China,it was called Cuju.

 

[Grappler]

Sheffield is the home of Association football. I wrote a book and designed a walking app called exactly that:
https://www.englandsoldestfootballclubs.com/sheffield-home-of-football/
So when/if it comes home then there's one or two candidates for the location - perhaps Heeley Parish Church ? - the last resting place of Nathaniel Creswick (founder of Sheffield FC).
There is momentum building with the Council and the football clubs to launch a long term initiative starting with the 160th anniversary of the 1858 Sheffield Rules on October 27th. We are hopeful of an exhibition to show off all the footballing football treasure that Sheffield boasts for that weekend. So perhaps we will find a little space for the Jules Rimet there?

Speak to the club historian at Hallam FC (you may already be doing so) as he has tons of information and archives on all of this

 

[Bladesman]

There's plenty of room in our trophy cabinet for it .

Shhh...

 

[BushBlade]

I watched Badiel on the Silk Road last nite,and it appears that Football was invented in China,it was called Cuju.
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The Chinese claim they invented everything. It’s a shame they didn’t invent the camera so they could have taken some photos and proved it.

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

The Chinese claim they invented everything. It’s a shame they didn’t invent the camera so they could have taken some photos and proved it.

They used a brush instead.

They used to import Cobalt from Europe along the Silk Road to give them "blue" for the art work in paintings etc.

 

[TJB.]

Sheffield is the home of Association football. I wrote a book and designed a walking app called exactly that:
https://www.englandsoldestfootballclubs.com/sheffield-home-of-football/
So when/if it comes home then there's one or two candidates for the location - perhaps Heeley Parish Church ? - the last resting place of Nathaniel Creswick (founder of Sheffield FC).
There is momentum building with the Council and the football clubs to launch a long term initiative starting with the 160th anniversary of the 1858 Sheffield Rules on October 27th. We are hopeful of an exhibition to show off all the footballing football treasure that Sheffield boasts for that weekend. So perhaps we will find a little space for the Jules Rimet there?

So what's this nonsense about 'Cambridge rules' that I've read about in various places, dating back a few years before Sheffield FC was born? Apparently there's a plaque down there commemorating such a thing?

 

[Sheff de party]

The Chinese claim they invented everything. It’s a shame they didn’t invent the camera so they could have taken some photos and proved it.

Laughed out loud in an airport departure lounge* at that one. Superb. Missus was unimpressed, though that might have been my fault.

* Not a holiday boast, like football I am coming home.

 

[Jonboy60]

I watched Badiel on the Silk Road last nite,and it appears that Football was invented in China,it was called Cuju.
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Wasn’t it the mongols, that used to play with an enemies severed head, while riding a horse. Or was that polo.

 

[SB_90]

I rewatched history channel with alfie allen & they had substantial piece on Sheffield. sheffield fc & Hallam being the home of football that we know to day. Because of industrial revolution giving saturdays afternoons off & the rules being made

As much as i would love to be patriotic. I think we will beat Sweden but lose to Croatia. As few are letting them under the radar they destroyed Argentina & if the same players from Atletico Madrid, Liverpool, Barcelona, 2 from Real Madrid, 3 from Inter & AC Milan, Juventus, Fiorentina were for a more fashionable country. They would be bigger favourites

 

[Sheffsteel]

If, by chance football does in fact come home in a couple of weeks time, I think it’s worth reminding the Country at large that it will be returning to Sheffield, whose rules were largely adopted as a basis for the game as we know it.
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It amazes me how the media make a big deal about Englands tradition and the history of Wembley stadium

But if England ever bid for a World Cup you would have thought they’d advertise that football wouldn’t be just coming home to England
But football could come home to Sheffield
And whilst we’re at it.....a WC match could be played at the oldest major stadium in world football.
You would think it would make any bid more attractive and also foreign fans would love the chance to visit such s historical stadium like Bramall Lane that had hosted internationals, FA Cup finals and FA cup semi finals before the old original Wembley was even built.

 

[Harry Thickett]

Every country in the world kicked some kind of spherical object around in the mists of time. The reference to Cuju and China -just happens to be the first depiction of the ball been kicked and doesn't mean they invented Association football. That story is English and is heavily influenced by Sheffield and the Cambridge Rules. Cambridge is the home of the first laws that influenced the creation of the FA rules. And Sheffield from 1857 to 1879 was at the epicentre of the Association game and rightly deserves its title as the 'Home of Football'.

 

[DifferentClass]

Not to mention a good deal of England's players were born in Sheffield or South Yorkshire.

 

[Eskimo]

I'd like to see a game played under the original Sheffield rules. Maybe a 160th anniversary event at BDTBL?

 

[bornablade]

About 30 years ago I had the opportunity of speaking to a number of business people in Sheffield about the development of tourism in the city.

I proposed that the city should build a Museum of Football (I must admit to not being the first to think of this) but I recommended that it should be designed similar to Jorvik in York which I suppose had been open about 5 years at that time.

The idea was for visitors to travel on a monorail through the Ages of Football. Starting off with the modern game, and then an historical journey past all the significant events of the game. Obvious choices England winning the World cup in 1966, the Munich Disaster, the Matthews Final, the first Wembley final in 1923 until the visitors arrive at 1857 and the playing fields of Sheffield where they see Mr Creswick and Mr Prest discussing, arguing over those basic rules that have now been exported to every corner of the globe.

Could it be argued that football is Sheffield's greatest export?

I went to the museum in Manchester before the FA Cup game in January 2016 and must say it was OK but not memorable.

Sheffield and Sheffield United possess an incredible historic asset and are not really doing enough about it.

We are making the most of our academy for the future. We could do much more with our historical past.

 

[Harry Thickett]

I'd like to see a game played under the original Sheffield rules. Maybe a 160th anniversary event at BDTBL?

It is being discussed at the moment.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

So perhaps we will find a little space for the Jules Rimet there?

I'm afraid that is missing presumed melted down in Brazil. The FIFA World Cup trophy is up for grabs though!