Jerseys, Knickers & Stockings
Photographs from the late 19th century show how players dressed for matches in the early days of football. For most teams, the kit consisted of long-sleeved, cotton, flannelette (roughly woven…
Football Training
Training was not part of the ‘gentlemanly ideal’. Intense training was considered throughout the Victorian ear to be “poor form”: ‘Practising too much undermined natural grace and talent … gentlemen…
Loughborough Wednesday FC
Loughborough Wednesday Football Club, who in later years became known as Loughborough Traders, shared the Athletic Grounds with Loughborough AFC of the Football League. At one time all the shops…