Belgrave Cricket & Cycle Ground
Former home ground of both Leicester Fosse and Leicester Tigers. In June 1881 it also hosted Leicestershire County Cricket Club against an All England XI. The ground was situated a…
Leicestershire Professional Footballers 1894-95
The Football Association compiled a list professional footballers registered at the start of the 1894-95 season. Leicestershire had 84 professional footballers – playing for eight clubs – Coalville Albion (6),…
Whitwick Football League Fixture
The northwest Leicestershire colliery town of Whitwick staged a Football League Division 2 fixture on Saturday 31 March 1900 – between Loughborough Town and Burslem Port Vale. Three weeks earlier…
Call To Arms …
The following “Call to Arms” poem, written by Edward Oppenheim, encouraging footballers to take the King’s shilling, appeared in many newspapers during November 1914. TO LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS LEICESTER NOVELISTS MESSAGE…