The first football match in the world to attract a crowd of 100000 plus. Click the link to see & read more
- Glossop has the honour of being the smallest town to have boasted a club in the top flight of English football. Read this cracking blog post for a potted history of Glossop North End and report of their FA Vase 2nd round match at home to Dunston UTS on 14/11/09.
The 100 Football Grounds Club: My Matchday - 232 Surrey Street
Winning is without value if victory has been achieved unfairly or dishonestly. Cheating is easy, but brings no pleasure. Playing fair requires courage and character. It is also more satisfying. Fair play always has its reward, even when the game is lost. Playing fair earns respect, while cheating only brings shame.
Pele 1000th GOAL
- 40 years ago today Pele scored his 1000th goal in all matches. Popularly called O Milésimo (The Thousandth) tt came with a penalty strike for Santos in a game against Vasco da Gama at the legendary Maracana Stadium. Some great footage below.
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Be sure to check out the World Football Culture archive on Pitch Invasion.
Sheffield FC v Queen's Park 1957
Sheffield FC celebrate their 100th birthday.
- Held at Bramall Lane on the 24th October 1957. Exactly 100 years to the day that Sheffield FC were officially founded. This match versus Queen’s Park of Scotland is the World’s first ever football club centenary celebration fixture.
- Bramall Lane was also the venue for Sheffield FC’s 125th anniversary match against Manchester United and the 150 years celebration game against Inter Milan.
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Honved 1954
In 1954 Wolverhampton Wanderers were proclaimed in the English press as ‘Champions of the World’ following a thrilling 3-2 floodlit friendly win over Honved of Hungary. Honved boasted many of the ‘Magical Magyars’ that had humilated England 6-3 at Wembley and then 7-1 in Hungary. In front of 55000 people and the cameras of the BBC, English pride was restored.
Tip: Click fullscreen then zoom in to read the programme.
Articles on Footysphere tagged floodlights
Footysphere on Facebook
So Footysphere has taken the plunge and sorted out a facebook page. If you enjoy Footysphere and are on facebook then you can follow our updates on there and maybe discuss some of the oddities you come across as you browse our site, which by the way is classed as ‘excellent’ and ‘highly recommended’ by the fine folk over at Pitch Invasion. Be sure to spread the word amongst your Facebook friends. Cheers.
Footysphere supports The Stirling Albion Supporters Trust.
- This is the first time that fans, no matter who you support or where you are in the world, will have the chance to own a football league club.
- With our campaign you will know exactly what you are buying.
- The long-established SAFC Supporters Trust not only want to save the club- but to restructure it in a way that means Stirling Albion will not just survive- but thrive in the future, under complete community ownership.
Follow them on Twitter @buysafc
Linfield v Tampa Bay Rowdies 1980
The 3rd match of the Rowdies Tour of the UK in 1980.
Linfield won 3-1.
Donate your old football boots for the kids in Africa.The campaign hopes to collect as many pairs of football boots as possible for under-privileged children in Africa by the 2010 World Cup.
Follow them on Twitter @bootsforafrica
West Ham, First Vienna, 1962 « The Memorial Ground – West Ham United Programmes Online
This is a programme cover from a floodlit friendly that West Ham United played against First Vienna in 1962. It is featured on an awesome website a link to which is above. Click through to read more about the game and download the full programme to read at your leisure. Lots more West Ham programmes available to view. *Recommended*
- Southend United FC announced on 27th October that HMRC are now seeking an Administration for the football club
- Visit The Shrimpers Trust to find out how you can help.
- Follow them on Twitter @shrimperstrust
Twitter has started to roll out it’s listing feature. I have compiled a list, which is a work in progress, of Twitter users who tweet about football (soccer).
You can recommend someone for the list if you wish. Either send me an @ message on Twitter by clicking the follow button over on the right »
- or head on over to Listorious | Togga Tweets, fill in the dead simple form & hit the tweet button. Yeah!
